Episodios

  • Episode 77 - Repost: The Physics of the Flip Flap Rollercoaster
    Jul 23 2024

    To learn more about the physics of roller coasters and read the podcast's transcripts, please visit me at www.MathScienceHistory.com. And while you're there, please feel free to click on that coffee button and buy me a cup of coffee!

    To buy my book Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life on Amazon, visit https://a.co/d/g3OuP9h

    Until next time, carpe diem!

    All music by Lloyd Rodgers has no Copyright and no rights reserved.

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  • Episode 76 - Look out! It's Momentum!
    Jul 9 2024

    Momentum! It's a term used in wide variety of contexts, but in Physics it is defined as "mass in motion." It is the product of an objects mass times its velocity. In this podcast I go into its history...and it's future!

    To read the podcast's transcripts and to see the noted math equations, please visit me at www.MathScienceHistory.com.

    To buy my book Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life on Amazon, visit https://a.co/d/g3OuP9h

    Until next time, carpe diem!

    All music by Lloyd Rodgers has no Copyright and no rights reserved

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    24 m
  • Episode 75 - Abstract Algebra Swimming and Rummikub
    Jun 25 2024

    My brain got away from me and I found myself going down a rabbit hole. While there, I revisited the math of Evariste Galois and his foundations to Abstract Algebra. I also ventured into the game Rummikub, the Olympics and swimming. Welcome to my brain.

    To read the podcast's transcripts, please visit me at www.MathScienceHistory.com. While you are there, feel free to donate to the podcast through that cup of coffee button.

    Until next time, carpe diem!

    All music by Lloyd Rodgers - No Copyright - No rights reserved

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  • Episode 74 - The Murder of Evariste Galois
    Jun 11 2024

    Evariste Galois was a brilliant mathematician with a passion for justice. He was only 22 when he was murdered. To this day, his murderers remain unknown. But his insightful mathematical theories are known throughout the world. This is his story.

    To read the podcast's transcripts, please visit me at www.MathScienceHistory.com. While you are there, feel free to donate to the podcast through that cup of coffee button.

    Until next time, carpe diem!

    All music by Lloyd Rodgers - No Copyright - No rights reserved

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    18 m
  • Episode 73 - The History of Calculators
    May 23 2024

    You know that little app you use on your phone to do your calculations? It has a fun, clunky history full of interesting inventions! The history of the calculator goes as far back as 300 CE with the Salamis Tablet. Today, we can graph in 3-D and solve even the most complex abstract algebraic equations!

    To read the podcast's transcripts, please visit me at www.MathScienceHistory.com. While you are there, feel free to donate to the podcast through that cup of coffee button.

    Until next time, carpe diem!

    All music by Lloyd Rodgers - No Copyright - No rights reserved

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  • Episode 72 - Climate Scientist and Suffragette Eunice Foote
    Apr 23 2024

    During the month of Earth Day, it is justifiable and poignant that we while we honor Mother Earth, we also honor Eunice Newton Foote, the world's first female climate scientist. Foote perfectly exemplified how women contribute to more than just the places that society wants us to remain.

    To read the podcast's transcripts, please visit me at www.MathScienceHistory.com. While you are there, feel free to donate to the podcast through that cup of coffee button.

    To buy my book Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life visit me at https://mathsciencehistory.com/hypatia-the-sum-of-her-life/

    Until next time, carpe diem!

    All music by Lloyd Rodgers - No Copyright - No rights reserved

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    19 m
  • Episode 71 - Catherine Macaulay and her Call for Educational Equality
    Mar 31 2024

    As Women's History Month ends, I want to introduce you to Catherine Macaulay, an eighteenth-century British historian who called for equality in education. She believed that by providing education to young girls and women, we could let go of social opinions and develop human potential.

    To read the podcast's transcripts, please visit me at www.MathScienceHistory.com. While you are there, feel free to donate to the podcast through that cup of coffee button.

    To buy my book Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life visit me at https://mathsciencehistory.com/hypatia-the-sum-of-her-life/

    Until next time, carpe diem!

    All music by Lloyd Rodgers - No Copyright - No rights reserved

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    9 m
  • Episode 70: The Book Hypatia The Sum of Her Life
    Aug 1 2023

    Hypatia was one of the first female mathematicians that we know of. Her accomplishments were many. She was a valued Alexandrian teacher who taught mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy. She was a government advisor and was respected by leader all across the Roman Empire. Unfortunately, her death overshadows the sum of her incredible life. In this podcast, I read the first chapter of my book titled Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life! If you are interested in reading my book, please visit us at https://mathsciencehistory.com/hypatia-the-sum-of-her-life/

    To read the podcast's transcripts, please visit me at www.MathScienceHistory.com.

    Until next time, carpe diem!

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