Summer of Math Exposition 2
October 1, 2022 1:01 PM Subscribe
3Blue1Brown - YouTube did it again, a summer contest for new and facinating maths videos. This time with special focus on collaboration and even web page (non-video) creative math content. The results are out!
Have you seen more math videos in your feed recently? (SoME2 results) - YouTube
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I watched a bunch of these. I liked the bycycle question the best, but the airplane one was the one I found the most surprising
posted by rebent at 7:43 PM on October 1, 2022
posted by rebent at 7:43 PM on October 1, 2022
I'm always tempted to do a video for one of these types of thing. Didn't really have the time this year, but maybe SOME3! I had a paper a few years back on a new mathematical framework for studying numerical cognition (with some experts in that field) that I think could make an interesting video. It'd be a nice excuse to learn Manim.
posted by biogeo at 7:55 PM on October 1, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by biogeo at 7:55 PM on October 1, 2022 [1 favorite]
Ghaad, the follow-ups are just bald URLs?!
Winners
Clear Crystal Conundrums A Multifaceted Intro to Group Theory
This Is the Calculus They Won't Teach You
How Realistic CGI Works (And How To Do It Way Faster)
Percolation: a Mathematical Phase Transition
The Coolest Hat Puzzle You've Probably Never Heard
Also rans
How to Take the Factorial of Any Number
How are memories stored in neural networks?
The shapes of waves of ships and ducks
Differentiable Programming from Scratch
Group Theory to Speed Up Algorithms
Pleasing Panoramas and Matrix Multiplication
Tale of Tangent Spheres
Why there are no perfect maps (and why we eat pizza the way we do)
What Lies Between a Function and Its Derivative?
1 Billion is Tiny in an Alternate Universe: p-adic Numbers
The Mathematical Problem with Music, and How to Solve It
Curious Track, or What Bikes Are Hiding From Us
An Inverse Turing Test
What A General Diagonal Argument Looks Like (Category Theory)
Why the Circle encloses the Largest Area | Explained using Hill Climbing
The Amazing Math behind Colors!
An Interactive Guide for Bézier Curves.
Does every game have a winner?
A Finite Game of Infinite Rounds
Numberphile's Square-Sum Problem was solved!
Now my Sunday morning will be less of a random walk.
BobTheInfrastructuralist
posted by BobTheScientist at 1:22 AM on October 2, 2022 [2 favorites]
Winners
Clear Crystal Conundrums A Multifaceted Intro to Group Theory
This Is the Calculus They Won't Teach You
How Realistic CGI Works (And How To Do It Way Faster)
Percolation: a Mathematical Phase Transition
The Coolest Hat Puzzle You've Probably Never Heard
Also rans
How to Take the Factorial of Any Number
How are memories stored in neural networks?
The shapes of waves of ships and ducks
Differentiable Programming from Scratch
Group Theory to Speed Up Algorithms
Pleasing Panoramas and Matrix Multiplication
Tale of Tangent Spheres
Why there are no perfect maps (and why we eat pizza the way we do)
What Lies Between a Function and Its Derivative?
1 Billion is Tiny in an Alternate Universe: p-adic Numbers
The Mathematical Problem with Music, and How to Solve It
Curious Track, or What Bikes Are Hiding From Us
An Inverse Turing Test
What A General Diagonal Argument Looks Like (Category Theory)
Why the Circle encloses the Largest Area | Explained using Hill Climbing
The Amazing Math behind Colors!
An Interactive Guide for Bézier Curves.
Does every game have a winner?
A Finite Game of Infinite Rounds
Numberphile's Square-Sum Problem was solved!
Now my Sunday morning will be less of a random walk.
BobTheInfrastructuralist
posted by BobTheScientist at 1:22 AM on October 2, 2022 [2 favorites]
If it doesn't have to be video, a chap named Bartosz Ciechanowski has a number of excellent explanatory articles with interactive embeded visualisations. Some examples: how a mechanical watch works, cameras and lenses.
posted by acb at 4:21 AM on October 2, 2022
posted by acb at 4:21 AM on October 2, 2022
That percolation video is one of the best math presentations I’ve ever come in contact with.
Among other wonderful things, it features a very clear, understandable, and not condescending proof of a deeper and more difficult theorem than I would have said could possibly yield its riches to such treatment, and that I would never have been able to grasp on my own.
posted by jamjam at 11:35 PM on October 2, 2022 [2 favorites]
Among other wonderful things, it features a very clear, understandable, and not condescending proof of a deeper and more difficult theorem than I would have said could possibly yield its riches to such treatment, and that I would never have been able to grasp on my own.
posted by jamjam at 11:35 PM on October 2, 2022 [2 favorites]
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