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Classical Logic and Philosophy
Lesson 1: Math is Everywhere, Take 2
Lesson 2: The "A" Team, Zeno and Eudoxus - Origins of philosophy and paradox
Lesson 3: Plato & Aristotle - Mathematics and reason
Lesson 4: Euclid and Aristarchus of Alexandria - First Mathematics Textbook
Lesson 5: Shen Kua and Zhu Shijie - Chinese Mathematics in the Middle Ages
Lesson 6: Augustine and Aquinas - Philosophy, the Church, and Science
Lesson 7: Omar Khayyam
Lesson 8: Nicolas Oresme and Fibonacci Redux
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Great Ideas in the Age of Reason
Lesson 9: Niccolo "Tartaglia" Fontana and Girolamo Cardano - Italian rival gambler
:esson 10: Gerardus Mercator 1512-1594 - Mapping the World
Lesson 11: Rene Descartes 1596-1650 Cartesian Geometry
Lesson 12: Pierre de Fermat - a World Famous Math Problem
Lesson 13: Maria Agnesi 1718-1799 and Gregor Mendel 1822-1884: Mathematics and the Cloth
Lesson 14: Daniel Fahrenheit 1686-1736, Joseph Black 1731-1810 and Henry Cavendish 1731-1810
Lesson 15: Benjamin Banneker 1731-1806, African Amercan mathematician
Lesson 16: Antoine Lavoisier 1743-1794, John Dalton 1766–1844, and Meldelyev 1834-1907: Math meetsf Chemistry
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The Age of Technology
Lesson 17: Ben Franklin and Benjamin Thompson: Magic Squares, and Electricity
Lesson 18: Napoleon, French mathe- maticians and the Metric System
Lesson 19: Faraday and Maxwell - Mathematics and Thermodynamics
Lesson 20: Thomas Bayes, Pierre-Simon LaPlace, and Gregor Mendel - Probability
Lesson 21: Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, pioneers of computing
Lesson 22: Mary Somerville, Sonya Kovalevsky - Women in Mathematics
Lesson 23: Boole, Cayley and Sylvester
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Math and the Arts
Lesson 25: August Mobius and
Felix Christian Klein
Lesson 26: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
(Lewis Carroll)
Lesson 27: The Logicians: Alfred North Whitehead, Bertram Russell, and Kurt Godel
Lesson 28: Albert Einstein
Lesson 29: George Polya / Mary Boole
Lesson 30: Young, Peter and Mandelbrot: Fractal Geometry
Lesson 31: M. C. Escher Math and Art
Lesson 32: Mathematics Today
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