Season 1 Episodes
1. What Is Mathematics?
March 1st, 2018
You explore the peculiar nature of mathematics. Why is it that abstractions that arose in one context can lead to unexpected insights in another? This lecture closes with a look at the major conceptual advances that are the focus of this course.
2. Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics
March 1st, 2018
3. Greek Mathematics—Thales to Euclid
March 1st, 2018
4. Greek Mathematics—Archimedes to Hypatia
March 1st, 2018
5. Astronomy and the Origins of Trigonometry
March 8th, 2018
6. Indian Mathematics—Trigonometry Blossoms
March 15th, 2018
