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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2556: Hilbert and Euclid’s Elements

Posted on February 4, 2021 · Episode: 2556 Euclid’s Elements, David Hilbert, and modern notions of mathematical abstraction. Today, making a point.

Posted on January 15, 2021 · Episode: 1982 Albrecht Dürer and Times Roman Letters: Art that endured. Today, let us write in CAPITAL LETTERS.

Posted on August 21, 2020 · Episode: 1919 Möbius and his strip: an abstract spur to applied mathematics. Today, Möbius’ strip.

Posted on September 13, 2019 · Episode: 1741 The saintly Witch of Agnesi. Today, we meet the Witch of Agnesi.

Posted on August 16, 2018 · Episode: 3182 Looking at Magical Shapes. Today, it’s all in how you look at it.

Posted on July 26, 2018 · Episode: 3179 Pierre Wantzel Makes History. Today, fame that wasn’t.

Posted on June 25, 2018 · Episode: 1530 Medieval masons and the mischief of success. Today, we meet a medieval mason.

Posted on June 5, 2018 · Episode: 2762 Mathematics and the Early 1900s Progressive Education Movement. Today, Uncle Sam’s better half.

Posted on May 29, 2018 · Episode: 2760 Mathematics and the Early 1900s Progressive Education Movement. Today, doing away with math.

Posted on March 21, 2018 · Episode: 1483 In which J. Willard Gibbs pictures gear teeth. Today, a glimpse into the mind of J. Willard Gibbs.

Posted on January 17, 2018 · Episode: 1457 Eratosthenes’s 2200 year old calculation of Earth’s size. Today, we measure the earth.

Posted on September 26, 2017 · Episode: 2652 Descartes, the Scientist. Today, an extended postscript.

Posted on March 2, 2017 · Episode: 3111 Temple Geometry: Sacred Mathematics in Japan’s Edo Period. Today, a very different expression of religion.

Posted on February 28, 2017 · Episode: 2556 Euclid's Elements, David Hilbert, and modern notions of mathematical abstraction. Today, making a point.

Posted on April 25, 2016 · 1153 Grosseteste, Bacon, and the rise of realism Today, Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, and cyberspace.