The Story of Mathematical Thought
Video 1: Intro and Prehistory of Mathematics (21:43) Featured Timeline (PDF)
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Video 2: Mathematics and Mysticism (27:24)
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Video 3: The Pre-Socratics (27:00)
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Video 4: Socrates-Plato-Aristotle (32:01)
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Video 5: Alexander and the Hellenistic Age (16:22)
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Video 6: What's First in Math? (15:17)
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Video 7: The Axiomatic Method (12:46)
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Video 8: 1800 Years Later (26:41)
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Video 9: Copernicus and Galileo (16:39)
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Video 10: Descartes and Newton (15:38)
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Video 11: The Calculus (15:31)
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Video 13: Non-Euclidean Geometry (30:30)
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Video 14: Hilbert's Foundations of Geometry (24:50)
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Video 15: Collapse of the Calculus (26:48)
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Video 16: Transfinite Arithmetic and Set Theory (20:31)
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Video 17: Frege and Logicism (21:17)
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Video 18: Hilberts' Program and Godel's Incompleteness Theorem (17:55)
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