Episode 50 - Alcuin of York - A wolf, a Goat and a Cabbage | The Mathematicians Podcast How do you get a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage across a river without turning the boat into a buffet? Welcome to the Season 1 Finale of The Mathematicians Podcast! Today, we go to the court of Charlemag...

So who first introduced the river crossing problem? Or the Jeep Problem?

Why our good friend Alcuin of York. Have a listen to the final episode of #TheMathematiciansPodcast to find out more.

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#riddles

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I just recorded my final 50th episode of #TheMathematiciansPodcast for this series. It's been a blast. The show will continue, but now much slower; and we will return in the new year with the story in India.

You can hear the final ep tomorrow.

Or support the next series with the link in my bio.

Episode 49 - Bede - Just in Time | The Mathematicians Podcast Was Bede a mathematician? Well, he certainly made history count. Join Benjamin Cornish for a trip to Northumbria (which is definitely in England) to meet the "OG monk" who mastered the calendar. In th...

Released today, the penultimate episode of #TheMathematiciansPodcast of the Hellenistic series, with a surprising monk from Northumbria, born 755AD
#Bede the venerable, very arguably a Mathematician, find out why. The guy that gave us calendars and counting
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Episode 47 - Isidorus of Miletus - Build it, and they will come This week, we bridge the gap between Alexandria and Constantinople with Isidorus of Miletus, a mathematician and architect who preferred teaching to writing. We look into how he and his partner, Anthe...

Very happy to share today's episode of #TheMathematiciansPodcast

Want to know what is so special about the #HagaSophia, then listen in as we discuss the mathematicians who designed it. Alongside this, a tale of a nearly lost work by #Archimedes

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Episode 44 - The Injectives with Hope Duncan - On Infinity This week on The Mathematician's Podcast, we take a break from the philosophical and theological debates of the past to chat with an intellectual heavyweight of our own age! In another special "Inject...

I had another delightful maths moment with @hopeiona.bsky.social, where we talked at length on the nature of #infinity. If you'd like to listen in then you can find our interview here.

From ancient history to ZFCs.

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Episode 43 - John Philoponus - To infinity and stopping Welcome back to The Mathematicians Podcast! This episode introduces our first "John" – John Philoponus, also known as John the Grammarian or John of Alexandria. This Christian theologian, philosopher,...

John Philoponus just dropped, over on #TheMathematiciansPodcast.

If you want to discuss infinity, momentum and Christian theology, then tune in to this week's episode.

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I just had an absolutely delightful afternoon talking about #infinity with @hopeiona.bsky.social, for a special episode of #TheMathematiciansPodcast.

Tune in next Wednesday to hear about the history and the now of infinity.

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The Insatiableness of Avarice. Though the covetous grown wealthy See his piles of gold rise high; Though he gather store of treasure That can never satisfy; Though with pearls his gorget blazes, Rarest that the ocean yields; Though a hundred head of oxen Travail in his ample fields; Ne'er shall carking care forsake him While he draws this vital breath, And his riches go not with him, When his eyes are closed in death. -Boethius, 524 CE

The people asked for a poem written by #Boethius, so I will provide a poem by Boethius. If you want to hear me read this, then check out this week's #TheMathematiciansPodcast for an episode of philosophy, theology and maths.

#TalkingMaths
#MathsSky

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Episode 41 - Hypatia - Less than fairer This week we explore the brilliant, and tragically short, life of Hypatia of Alexandria. Born around 370 CE, she was a pioneering female mathematician and philosopher who led the last great school of ...

Wouldn't it be awful if the first 3 recorded Women in the #HistoryofMaths were lost.

At least we get the 4th - Hypatia. SPOILER: her story does not make the patriarchy look any better. Would you like to know why?
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#womeninmaths
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Episode 39 - Diophantus of Alexandria - A whole lot of fun

How many integers, n, are there, such that n!+1 is a perfect square?

Find out on this week's #TheMathematiciansPodcast where we look at Diophantine equations and the man who started them.

Could this be the birth of modern algebra? Nearly.

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Hey. Guess who very nearly has made it onto the front page of apple podcasts 'Mathematics' list. It's #TheMathematiciansPodcast.

Watch out @timharford.ft.com , I only need to get a few million more downloads weekly to steal top billing.

Admittedly this "more" is multiplicative not additive.

Episode 36 - Nicomachus of Gerasa - That which divides us In this episode of The Mathematicians Podcast, Benjamin Cornish explores the life and works of Nicomachus of Gerasa—a philosopher, mystic, and mathematician whose obsession with numbers shaped centuri...

Was he a Platonic Pythagorean, or a crank? You decide, as we explore Nicomachus in this week's #TheMathematiciansPodcast

He's the guy that thought numbers had such well defined personalities, that he wrote a mandetory textbook for the next 1000 years

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Episode 33 - Injectives with Dr Daffern - Religion and Maths - Part 1 | The Mathematicians Podcast In this one-to-one edition of The Mathematicians Podcast, part of our Injectives subseries, host Benjamin Cornish sits down with philosopher, peace theorist, and long-time educator Dr Thomas Daffern t...

I am very delighted to present my latest interview for #TheMathematiciansPodcast

I talk to Dr Daffern about the intersectional history of #maths + #religion

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Bring your skepticism and doubt and be amazed at how the two topics link
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#philosophy

Getting ready to interview Dr Daffern on the intersectionality of ancient maths and ancient religion for #TheMathematiciansPodcast. Very much looking forward to episode 33, check it out in 2 weeks.

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Episode 31 - Hipparchus - Going Supernova | The Mathematicians Podcast In this episode of The Mathematicians Podcast, Benjamin Cornish dives into the life and legacy of Hipparchus, the Greek thinker who gave us trigonometry, mapped the stars, and even invented tools to m...

Hey who invented #Trigonometry anyway?

Good question, come find out on this week's episode of #TheMathematiciansPodcast.

Wouldn't it be cool if he was the same guy who first identified a supernova, well if you insist

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#mathschat
#mathshistory

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Episode 28 - Apollonius of Perga - What Goes around comes around In this episode of The Mathematicians Podcast, Benjamin Cornish turns his attention to Apollonius of Perga—the ancient Greek mathematician whose work on conic sections shaped the way we understand cur...

Hey, I just dropped my 27th episode on the history of Mathematicians in chronological order. Check out Apollonius, on conics. One of the whales of ancient greek maths.

#mathstalk
#mathsky
#themathematicianspodcast

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Pages from the 9th century Arabic translation of the Conics. Sourced from Wikipedia

I'm researching Apollonius ahead of next week's #TheMathematiciansPodcast. I would love to say I'm using this as the source material, but we all know that's a lie.

It's still beautiful to see a 9thC book that looks like it could easily be a modern student's notes.

#alwaystrue
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Episode 27 - Chrysippus - A Good Proposition | The Mathematicians Podcast What do ancient logic, Stoic philosophy, and paradoxes have in common? Chrysippus of Soli. In this episode, Ben Cornish explores how Chrysippus revolutionised logic and gave Stoicism its rational back...

Delighted to bring you an episode on #Chrysippus

If (you are a fan of formal logic):
Then (you should listen along)

+Some extra bits on moral philosophy from the 'Second Father of Stoicism'

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#hisyoryoflogic
#TheMathematiciansPodcast
#ifthen

I've just got out from teaching a class on logic so formal I had to wait a tux.

Luckily there is an episode dropping tomorrow of #themathematicianspodcast on #chrysippus.

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Episode 25 - Philo of Byzantium - | The Mathematicians Podcast Grab your ventriloquist dummies and your gimbles, as we catapult ourselves into a story about the worlds first mathematical engineer. If you thought Leonardo Da Vinci was pretty metal, well you're abo...

A bit of a fun one today on #themathematicianspodcast

We look at Philo of Byzantium who was probably the first mad scientist in history.

Expect magic, catapults and a repeating crossbow.

#historyofmaths
#mathsky

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Also today! I am very happy to have launched my own YT channel with a debut video on #Archimedes, as a companion piece for this week's #TheMathematiciansPodcast.

If you want to learn how to perform the Quadrature of the Parabola, then step this way.

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Episode 24 -Archimedes of Syracuse | The Mathematicians Podcast In this week's episode we look at the life an works of the Great Archimedes. A man who was so much more than what we all think, and we all think quite highly of him. But let's look behind the claw, th...

Hey. In case you missed it, the latest episode of #themathematicianspodcast dropped today.

Today we finally turn our attention to #archimedes. More myth than man, we explore "The Method" to the madness, and make meaningful meditations on the maths. Mmmm.

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Screenshot from wolfram mathworld of the Papus chain.

So #Pappus got up to some spicy maths back in the 3rdC BCE.

Inscribed circles each a distance of n diameters from the base.

I am looking forward to this episode of #themathematicianspodcast

#historyofmaths
#mathsky

Excited today to release the latest episode of #themathematicianspodcast. It's #euclid day!

When I started the podcast I was thinking "I would like to get to Euclid at least", but thought I might do it in 10. Here we are at number 22, I had no idea how many interesting people there were!

#mathsky

Screenshot of the wiki page for the Papus area Theorem

So I've been reading up on the Mathematicians of #ancientgreece. Coming to the end of the Hellenistic golden age, and I come across this gem. Turns out #Pythagoras theorem is just the weaker version of Papus' Area Theorem.

And yes he will get his own episode on #themathematicianspodcast.

#mathsky

Episode 19 - Aristotle - On The Philosopher | The Mathematicians Podcast This week we have a big one! One of the greats, if not the greatest, philosophers of all time: Aristotle. We will explore how this philosopher-scientist also wears a heavy crown of mathematics, despit...

This week we have a big one! One of the greats, if not the greatest, philosophers of all time: #Aristotle.

Listen now at #themathematicianspodcast for a cogent argument about Aristotle inventing set theory, and other questionable history facts.

#mathsky

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The Mathematicians Podcast | Ben Cornish Where we explore the historical figures that count. An in-depth look at the history of mathematics, in chronological order, looking at the people, the theories, the ideas - with as fewer gaps as possi...

I am incredibly excited to drop a new episode tomorrow of #themathematicianspodcast. I have one of the longest episodes yet, and certainly the most fun to write: on the philosopher himself #aristotle.

Make sure you catch up on all 17 previous episodes tonight.

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Episode 14 - Eudoxus of Cnidus - Where we Take Pleasure This week we take an exhaustive look at the mathematician that invented calculus... arguably. We can certainly have that argument. So let us enjoy the good life, by taking pleasure in the pursuit of k...

A new episode of #themathematicianspodcast has dropped today. Would you like to discover 2500 year old calculus? I think in these uncertain times, we all should.

Come on down to your favourite podcast app and join me there.

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