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1 The Sphere Intersection Puzzle 0:46 2026-10-25
2 There's never been a better time to go into math 40:44 2026-10-16
3 The Phone Number puzzle 0:44 2026-09-25
4 The last IMO problem AI could not solve 1:40 2026-09-18
5 The last IMO problem AI could not solve 51:56 2026-09-18
6 The jumping pegs puzzle 0:53 2026-08-18
7 The 64 sugar cubes puzzle 0:56 2026-07-24
8 But what is cross-entropy? | Compression is Intelligence Part 2 33:51 2026-07-16
9 100 random chords, how many intersections? 1:10 2026-06-16
10 Measuring the entropy of English 2:25 2026-06-12
11 What's the perfect encoding? How do you know? 1:02 2026-06-10
12 Reinventing Entropy | Compression is Intelligence Part 1 32:20 2026-06-07
13 Tie random ends: How many loops? 1:22 2026-05-21
14 Covering 10 points, a surprisingly tricky puzzle. 0:39 2026-04-16
15 Escher's most mind-bending piece 1:43 2026-03-27
16 The subset sum puzzle 0:49 2026-03-25
17 How (and why) to take a logarithm of an image 44:52 2026-03-22
18 Bacteria Grid Puzzle Solution 3:00 2026-03-21
19 The most beautiful formula not enough people understand 1:00:24 2026-02-27
20 The lattice bacteria puzzle 1:02 2026-02-18
21 Solution to the ladybug clock puzzle 2:34 2026-02-16
22 Why you can't comb a hairy ball, and why we care 29:40 2026-01-31
23 The ladybug clock puzzle 1:01 2026-01-16
24 Why Laplace transforms are so useful 23:05 2025-11-05
25 The dynamics of e^(πi) 1:46 2025-10-12
26 But what is a Laplace Transform? 34:41 2025-10-12
27 The Physics of Euler's Formula | Laplace Transform Prelude 27:49 2025-10-05
28 What was Euclid really doing? | Guest video by Ben Syversen 33:29 2025-09-18
29 Incomplete open cubes 1:12 2025-09-07
30 Exploration & Epiphany | Guest video by Paul Dancstep 52:12 2025-09-07
31 Simulating and understanding phase change | Guest video by Vilas Winstein 41:03 2025-08-28
32 How AI connects text and images 1:43 2025-08-21
33 The AI that solved IMO Geometry Problems | Guest video by @Aleph0 13:31 2025-08-17
34 But how do AI images and videos actually work? | Guest video by Welch Labs 37:20 2025-07-25
35 Where my explanation of Grover’s algorithm failed 16:23 2025-05-04
36 But what is quantum computing? (Grover's Algorithm) 36:54 2025-04-30
37 Testing your intuition for quantum computing 1:41 2025-04-30
38 How to measure nearby galaxies 1:03 2025-04-20
39 Measuring the distance to Venus without radar 2:21 2025-04-08
40 Measuring the speed of light using Jupiter's moons 1:45 2025-04-07
41 The tragic tale of Guillaume Le Gentil 0:56 2025-03-27
42 Zooming out by powers of 10 1:38 2025-03-26
43 Why colliding blocks compute pi 26:07 2025-03-13
44 When being beautifully wrong leads to discovery 1:01 2025-02-28
45 Why the ancient Greeks rejected heliocentrism 1:46 2025-02-27
46 How to estimate the distance to the sun 1:32 2025-02-26
47 How Aristarchus deduced the distance to the moon 0:53 2025-02-25
48 Terence Tao continuing history’s cleverest cosmological measurements 25:35 2025-02-23
49 How Earth's size was computed by Eratosthenes 2:07 2025-02-12
50 Terence Tao on the cosmic distance ladder 28:33 2025-02-08
51 Measuring the earth with Terence Tao 1:22 2025-02-08
52 The topology of two-note chords 2:03 2025-01-30
53 The barber pole optical mystery 3:00 2025-01-06
54 Monge's Theorem 0:59 2024-12-29
55 Thinking through double slits 1:49 2024-12-26
56 The inscribed square problem 0:58 2024-12-24
57 This open problem taught me what topology is 27:26 2024-12-24
58 The meaning within the Mandelbrot set 1:45 2024-11-24
59 The scale of training LLMs 0:32 2024-11-20
60 Large Language Models explained briefly 7:58 2024-11-20
61 This puzzle is trickier than it seems 1:45 2024-11-19
62 Sphere surface area proof sketch 1:25 2024-11-17
63 Newton’s Fractal is beautiful 3:00 2024-11-16
64 The Triangle Of Power 2:27 2024-11-15
65 The twirling tiles puzzle 1:00 2024-11-13
66 A bizarre probability fact 2:49 2024-11-12
67 Solving problems by adding a dimension 29:42 2024-11-08
68 LLMs are next-word predictors 0:49 2024-11-04
69 How I animate 3Blue1Brown | A Manim demo with Ben Sparks 53:41 2024-10-12
70 Hologram preview 0:58 2024-10-11
71 Holograms are wild (full video linked above) 0:55 2024-10-05
72 How are holograms possible? 46:24 2024-10-05
73 How might LLMs store facts | Deep Learning Chapter 7 22:43 2024-08-31
74 In the vector space of all advice... 0:57 2024-05-22
75 What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses | Harvey Mudd Commencement Speech 2024 15:30 2024-05-18
76 Temperature in LLMs 1:00 2024-04-28
77 How word vectors encode meaning 1:00 2024-04-11
78 Attention in transformers, step-by-step | Deep Learning Chapter 6 26:10 2024-04-07
79 Transformers, the tech behind LLMs | Deep Learning Chapter 5 27:14 2024-04-01
80 Simulating the electric field and a moving charge 1:00 2024-01-26
81 A challenging puzzle about subset sums 1:00 2024-01-22
82 Ellipses have multiple definitions, how are these the same? 0:51 2024-01-19
83 Three levels of understanding Bayes' theorem 0:50 2024-01-17
84 The medical test paradox (well "paradox") 0:57 2024-01-15
85 Positioned as the hardest question on a Putnam exam (#6, 1992) 1:00 2024-01-12
86 Why does light slowing imply a bend? (Beyond the tank/car analogy) 1:00 2024-01-11
87 The cube shadow puzzle 0:59 2024-01-09
88 What does it mean that light "slows down" in glass? 1:00 2024-01-08
89 Why do we call them "scalars"? 1:00 2024-01-06
90 A beautiful international math olympiad problem 1:00 2024-01-03
91 Definition of a "bit", in information theory 1:00 2024-01-02
92 The Newton art puzzle 1:00 2023-12-29
93 What is a group? 1:00 2023-12-27
94 How to derive a formula for π 1:00 2023-12-25
95 The limit of limiting arguments 0:51 2023-12-23
96 For anyone who might not know how links in shorts work 1:00 2023-12-21
97 Infinite Lighthouses and π 1:00 2023-12-21
98 Can you even imagine 2^256? 1:00 2023-12-16
99 Order from chaos 0:50 2023-12-15
100 A short on shorts 1:00 2023-12-13
101 A pretty way to add weighted dice 1:00 2023-12-12
102 A simple image convolution 0:59 2023-12-12
103 These integrals all equal π, until... 0:51 2023-12-11
104 The split necklace puzzle (with a surprise topological solution) 1:00 2023-12-11
105 Error correction is incredible 1:00 2023-12-10
106 The chessboard and coins puzzle 1:00 2023-12-10
107 Prime spirals 0:56 2023-12-09
108 The barber pole effect 1:00 2023-12-09
109 Fourier series 1:00 2023-12-08
110 Seeing with sound 1:00 2023-12-08
111 How prisms work (full video linked above) 1:00 2023-12-07
112 I'm still astounded this is true 1:00 2023-12-07
113 Don't let it fool you! 1:00 2023-12-07
114 Answering viewer questions about refraction 13:25 2023-12-03
115 But why would light "slow down"? | Visualizing Feynman's lecture on the refractive index 28:34 2023-11-30
116 25 Math explainers you may enjoy | SoME3 results 22:12 2023-10-07
117 How wiggling charges give rise to light 21:33 2023-09-01
118 This tests your understanding of light | The barber pole effect 9:57 2023-09-01
119 A pretty reason why Gaussian + Gaussian = Gaussian 13:16 2023-07-11
120 This pattern breaks, but for a good reason | Moser's circle problem 16:13 2023-07-02
121 How They Fool Ya (live) | Math parody of Hallelujah 4:00 2023-06-28
122 Convolutions | Why X+Y in probability is a beautiful mess 27:25 2023-06-27
123 Why π is in the normal distribution (beyond integral tricks) 24:46 2023-04-02
124 But what is the Central Limit Theorem? 31:15 2023-03-14
125 But what is a convolution? 23:01 2022-11-18
126 Researchers thought this was a bug (Borwein integrals) 17:26 2022-11-04
127 What makes a great math explanation? | SoME2 results 17:01 2022-10-01
128 How to lie using visual proofs 18:49 2022-07-03
129 Olympiad level counting (Generating functions) 34:36 2022-05-23
130 Oh, wait, actually the best Wordle opener is not “crane”… 10:53 2022-02-13
131 Solving Wordle using information theory 30:38 2022-02-06
132 A tale of two problem solvers | Average cube shadow area 40:06 2021-12-20
133 2021 Summer of Math Exposition results 12:40 2021-10-23
134 Beyond the Mandelbrot set, an intro to holomorphic dynamics 27:36 2021-10-16
135 Newton’s fractal (which Newton knew nothing about) 26:06 2021-10-12
136 Make math videos! | Summer of Math Exposition announcement 24:21 2021-07-16
137 A quick trick for computing eigenvalues | Chapter 15, Essence of linear algebra 13:13 2021-05-07
138 How (and why) to raise e to the power of a matrix | DE6 27:07 2021-04-01
139 The medical test paradox, and redesigning Bayes' rule 21:14 2020-12-22
140 Hamming codes part 2: The one-line implementation 16:50 2020-09-04
141 But what are Hamming codes? The origin of error correction 20:05 2020-09-04
142 Group theory, abstraction, and the 196,883-dimensional monster 21:58 2020-08-19
143 The impossible chessboard puzzle 18:42 2020-07-05
144 Tips to be a better problem solver [Last live lecture] | Ep. 10 Lockdown live math 1:08:20 2020-05-22
145 Intuition for i to the power i | Ep. 9 Lockdown live math 1:13:38 2020-05-15
146 The DP-3T algorithm for contact tracing (with Nicky Case) 4:24 2020-05-14
147 The power tower puzzle | Ep. 8 Lockdown live math 53:50 2020-05-12
148 What makes the natural log "natural"? | Ep. 7 Lockdown live math 1:14:54 2020-05-08
149 Logarithm Fundamentals | Ep. 6 Lockdown live math 1:34:22 2020-05-05
150 Imaginary interest rates | Ep. 5 Lockdown live math 1:03:07 2020-05-01
151 What is Euler's formula actually saying? | Ep. 4 Lockdown live math 51:16 2020-04-28
152 Complex number fundamentals | Ep. 3 Lockdown live math 1:22:11 2020-04-24
153 Trigonometry fundamentals | Ep. 2 Lockdown live math 1:13:17 2020-04-21
154 The simpler quadratic formula | Ep. 1 Lockdown live math 52:11 2020-04-17
155 Lockdown math announcement 2:13 2020-04-16
156 Why “probability of 0” does not mean “impossible” | Probabilities of probabilities, part 2 10:01 2020-04-12
157 Simulating an epidemic 23:12 2020-03-27
158 Binomial distributions | Probabilities of probabilities, part 1 12:34 2020-03-15
159 Exponential growth and epidemics 8:57 2020-03-08
160 The quick proof of Bayes' theorem 3:48 2019-12-22
161 Bayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs 15:11 2019-12-22
162 Q&A with Grant, windy walk edition 19:06 2019-11-23
163 Why do prime numbers make these spirals? | Dirichlet’s theorem and pi approximations 22:21 2019-10-08
164 The unexpectedly hard windmill question (2011 IMO, P2) 16:03 2019-08-04
165 e^(iπ) in 3.14 minutes, using dynamics | DE5 4:08 2019-07-07
166 Pure Fourier series animation montage 12:29 2019-07-03
167 But what is a Fourier series? From heat flow to drawing with circles | DE4 24:47 2019-06-30
168 Solving the heat equation | DE3 14:13 2019-06-16
169 But what is a partial differential equation? | DE2 17:39 2019-04-21
170 Differential equations, a tourist's guide | DE1 27:16 2019-03-31
171 Cramer's rule, explained geometrically | Chapter 12, Essence of linear algebra 12:12 2019-03-17
172 How colliding blocks act like a beam of light...to compute pi. 14:41 2019-02-03
173 The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle 5:13 2019-01-13
174 But why is a sphere's surface area four times its shadow? 15:51 2018-12-02
175 Using topology for discrete problems | The Borsuk-Ulam theorem and stolen necklaces 19:22 2018-11-18
176 Why 5/3 is a fundamental constant for turbulence 11:28 2018-11-07
177 Quaternions and 3d rotation, explained interactively 5:59 2018-10-26
178 Visualizing the 4d numbers Quaternions 31:51 2018-09-06
179 Q&A with Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown) 10:21 2018-08-24
180 Why slicing a cone gives an ellipse (beautiful proof) 12:52 2018-08-01
181 Other math channels you'd enjoy 8:09 2018-06-27
182 Divergence and curl: The language of Maxwell's equations, fluid flow, and more 15:42 2018-06-21
183 The other way to visualize derivatives | Chapter 12, Essence of calculus 14:26 2018-05-19
184 The Wallis product for pi, proved geometrically 25:27 2018-04-20
185 Winding numbers and domain coloring 23:10 2018-03-24
186 How pi was almost 6.283185... 5:53 2018-03-14
187 Why is pi here? And why is it squared? A geometric answer to the Basel problem 17:08 2018-03-02
188 The more general uncertainty principle, regarding Fourier transforms 18:07 2018-02-25
189 But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction. 19:42 2018-01-26
190 Why this puzzle is impossible 19:37 2017-12-23
191 Q&A #2 + Net Neutrality Nuance 4:05 2017-12-14
192 The hardest problem on the hardest test 11:15 2017-12-08
193 Backpropagation calculus | Deep Learning Chapter 4 10:18 2017-11-03
194 Backpropagation, intuitively | Deep Learning Chapter 3 12:47 2017-11-03
195 Gradient descent, how neural networks learn | Deep Learning Chapter 2 20:33 2017-10-16
196 But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1 18:40 2017-10-05
197 Some light quantum mechanics (with minutephysics) 22:22 2017-09-13
198 Thinking outside the 10-dimensional box 25:13 2017-08-11
199 Hilbert's Curve: Is infinite math useful? 18:18 2017-07-21
200 How secure is 256 bit security? 5:06 2017-07-08
201 But how does bitcoin actually work? 25:16 2017-07-07
202 All possible pythagorean triples, visualized 14:53 2017-05-26
203 Pi hiding in prime regularities 29:43 2017-05-19
204 Taylor series | Chapter 11, Essence of calculus 22:20 2017-05-07
205 Higher order derivatives | Chapter 10, Essence of calculus 5:39 2017-05-07
206 What does area have to do with slope? | Chapter 9, Essence of calculus 12:39 2017-05-06
207 Integration and the fundamental theorem of calculus | Chapter 8, Essence of calculus 20:46 2017-05-05
208 Limits, L'Hôpital's rule, and epsilon delta definitions | Chapter 7, Essence of calculus 18:27 2017-05-04
209 Implicit differentiation, what's going on here? | Chapter 6, Essence of calculus 15:34 2017-05-03
210 What's so special about Euler's number e? | Chapter 5, Essence of calculus 13:50 2017-05-02
211 Visualizing the chain rule and product rule | Chapter 4, Essence of calculus 15:56 2017-05-01
212 Derivative formulas through geometry | Chapter 3, Essence of calculus 17:34 2017-04-30
213 The paradox of the derivative | Chapter 2, Essence of calculus 16:50 2017-04-29
214 The essence of calculus 17:05 2017-04-28
215 Euler's formula with introductory group theory 24:28 2017-03-03
216 Fractals are typically not self-similar 21:36 2017-01-27
217 Tattoos on Math 8:15 2017-01-06
218 But what is the Riemann zeta function? Visualizing analytic continuation 22:11 2016-12-09
219 Binary, Hanoi, and Sierpinski, part 2 13:40 2016-11-25
220 Binary, Hanoi and Sierpinski, part 1 13:59 2016-11-25
221 3blue1brown channel trailer 1:32 2016-11-25
222 Who cares about topology? (Old version) 16:30 2016-11-04
223 Abstract vector spaces | Chapter 16, Essence of linear algebra 16:46 2016-09-24
224 Eigenvectors and eigenvalues | Chapter 14, Essence of linear algebra 17:16 2016-09-15
225 Change of basis | Chapter 13, Essence of linear algebra 12:51 2016-09-11
226 Cross products in the light of linear transformations | Chapter 11, Essence of linear algebra 13:10 2016-09-01
227 Cross products | Chapter 10, Essence of linear algebra 8:54 2016-09-01
228 Dot products and duality | Chapter 9, Essence of linear algebra 14:12 2016-08-24
229 Nonsquare matrices as transformations between dimensions | Chapter 8, Essence of linear algebra 4:27 2016-08-16
230 Inverse matrices, column space and null space | Chapter 7, Essence of linear algebra 12:09 2016-08-15
231 The determinant | Chapter 6, Essence of linear algebra 10:03 2016-08-10
232 Three-dimensional linear transformations | Chapter 5, Essence of linear algebra 4:46 2016-08-09
233 Matrix multiplication as composition | Chapter 4, Essence of linear algebra 10:04 2016-08-08
234 Linear transformations and matrices | Chapter 3, Essence of linear algebra 10:59 2016-08-07
235 Linear combinations, span, and basis vectors | Chapter 2, Essence of linear algebra 9:59 2016-08-06
236 Vectors | Chapter 1, Essence of linear algebra 9:52 2016-08-06
237 Essence of linear algebra preview 5:09 2016-08-05
238 Triangle of Power 7:42 2016-06-26
239 The Brachistochrone, with Steven Strogatz 16:02 2016-04-01
240 Snell's law proof using springs 3:57 2016-04-01
241 Fractal charm: Space filling curves 2:34 2016-01-17
242 Music And Measure Theory 13:13 2015-10-04
243 How to count to 1000 on two hands 2:34 2015-09-18
244 What does it feel like to invent math? 15:08 2015-08-14
245 Euler's Formula and Graph Duality 7:27 2015-06-21
246 Euler's Formula Poem 1:04 2015-03-05
247 e to the pi i, a nontraditional take (old version) 6:14 2015-03-05
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