#TheMathematiciansPodcast
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 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...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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 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...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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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#TalkingMaths
#Mathshistory
#mathsky
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,...
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October 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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.

#talkingmaths
#mathsky
#mathshistory
October 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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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October 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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?
#mathsky
#womeninmaths
#themathematicianspodcast

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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 ...
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October 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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.

#mathstalk
#mathsky

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Episode 39 - Diophantus of Alexandria - A whole lot of fun
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September 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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.
September 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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 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...
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August 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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
#mathschat
#talkmaths
#philosophy
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...
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August 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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.

#mathstalk
July 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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

#mathstalk
#mathschat
#mathshistory

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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...
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July 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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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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...
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July 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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
#mathsky
#mathstalk
June 29, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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
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#ifthen
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...
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June 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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.

#mathschat
#mathsky
June 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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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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...
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June 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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.

#mathstalk
#mathsky

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Calculus, but 2000 years before Calculus
YouTube video by Un-Applied Maths
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June 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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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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...
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June 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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
May 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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
May 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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
May 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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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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...
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April 30, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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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#mathsky
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...
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April 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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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#historyofmaths #mathsky #ancientmaths
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...
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March 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM