You know, I get through about half the video before it goes all “rest of the f***ing owl” on me, but it has amazing insights to the world of math and geometry.
From 3Blue1Brown. The famous (infamous?) Problem 2 on the 2011 IMO Home page: https://www.3blue1brown.com Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/windmillthanks You can find data for past IMO results here: https://www.imo-official.org/ The full list of problems considered for the IMO that year, together with their solutions, can be found here: https://www.imo-official.org/problems/IMO2011SL.pdf I made a quick reference…
From 3Blue1Brown. Euler’s formula intuition from relating velocities to positions. Home page: https://www.3blue1brown.com Yeah yeah, the runtime is 4:08, but it’s 3.14 minutes to the conclusion. Not familiar with the calculus referenced in this video? Try taking a look at this one: https://youtu.be/m2MIpDrF7Es Another perspective on this formula, from Mathologer: https://youtu.be/-dhHrg-KbJ0 Another perspective from this…
From 3Blue1Brown. Because why not? Learn the math behind this: https://youtu.be/r6sGWTCMz2k If you’re curious about the number of vectors used for each animation: – Eighth note: 100 – Sigma: 200 – Britain: 500 – Fourier drawing: 300 – Nail and Gear: 200 – Treble clef: 100 – Hilbert curve: 300 (relatively small given the detail,…
From 3Blue1Brown. Fourier series, from the heat equation to sines to cycles. Home page: https://www.3blue1brown.com Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/de4thanks Thanks to Stuart@Biocinematics for the one-line sketch of Fourier via twitter. As it happens, he also has an educational YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKOiJd9YCbv7LeL2LFOGiLQ Small correction: at 9:33, all the exponents should have a pi^2 in…
From 3Blue1Brown. Boundary conditions, and setup for how Fourier series are useful. Home page: https://www.3blue1brown.com Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/de3thanks More about the heat equation, with a derivation in terms of slope corresponding to heat flow from MIT OCW: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-303-linear-partial-differential-equations-fall-2006/lecture-notes/heateqni.pdf If you want to learn more about Fourier series, here are a few great…
From 3Blue1Brown. The heat equation, as an introductory PDE. Home page: https://www.3blue1brown.com Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/de2thanks Infinite powers, by Steven Strogatz: https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Powers-Calculus-Reveals-Universe/dp/1328879984 Typo corrections: – At 1:33, it should be “Black-Scholes” – At 16:21 it should read “scratch an itch”. If anyone asks, I purposefully leave at least one typo in each video,…
From 3Blue1Brown. How do you study what cannot be solved? Home page: https://3blue1brown.com/ Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/de1thanks Need to brush up on calculus? https://youtu.be/WUvTyaaNkzM Error correction: At 6:27, the upper equation should have g/L instead of L/g. Steven Strogatz NYT article on the math of love: https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/guest-column-loves-me-loves-me-not-do-the-math/ Interactive visualization of the example from…
From 3Blue1Brown. This rule seems random to many students, but it has a beautiful reason for being true. Home page: https://www.3blue1brown.com/ Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/cramer-thanks Full series: http://3b1b.co/eola —- If you want to contribute translated subtitles or to help review those that have already been made by others and need approval, you can…
From 3Blue1Brown. The third and final part of the block collision sequence. Part 1: https://youtu.be/HEfHFsfGXjs Part 2: https://youtu.be/jsYwFizhncE Home page: https://www.3blue1brown.com Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/clacks-thanks Error correction: I wrote the answer as floor(pi/theta), when really it should be ceiling(pi/theta) – 1 t account for values of theta perfectly dividing pi. For example, the…
From 3Blue1Brown. Part 1: https://youtu.be/HEfHFsfGXjs Part 3: https://youtu.be/brU5yLm9DZM Home page: https://www.3blue1brown.com Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/clacks-thanks Many of you shared solutions, attempts, and simulations with me this last week. I loved it! Y’all are the best. Here are just two of my favorites. By a channel STEM cell: https://youtu.be/ils7GZqp_iE By Doga Kurkcuoglu: http://bilimneguzellan.net/bouncing-cubes-and-%CF%80-3blue1brown/ And…
From 3Blue1Brown. If this doesn’t blow your mind, I don’t know what will. Part 2: https://youtu.be/jsYwFizhncE Part 3: https://youtu.be/brU5yLm9DZM Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/clacks-thanks New to this channel? It’s all about teaching math visually. Take a look and see if there’s anything you’d like to learn. NY Times blog post about this problem: https://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/pi/…
From 3Blue1Brown. The formula is no mere coincidence. Store: http://3b1b.co/store Home page: https://www.3blue1brown.com Special thanks: http://3b1b.co/sphere-thanks Discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Blue1Brown/comments/a2gqo0/but_why_is_a_spheres_surface_area_four_times_its/ The first proof goes back to Greek times, due to Archimedes, who was charmed by the fact that a sphere has 2/3 the volume of a cylinder encompassing it, and 2/3 the surface area as…
From 3Blue1Brown. Solving a discrete math puzzle using topology. Home page: https://www.3blue1brown.com Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/borsuk-thanks Want more fair division math fun? Check out this Mathologer video https://youtu.be/7s-YM-kcKME (Seriously, Mathologer is great) These videos are supported by the community. https://www.patreon.com/3blue1brown The original 1986 by Alon and West with this proof https://m.tau.ac.il/~nogaa/PDFS/Publications/The%20Borsuk-Ulam%20Theorem%20and%20bisection%20of%20necklaces.pdf VSauce on…
From 3Blue1Brown. Here we look at some of the order amidst chaos in turbulence. Vortex rings with Physics Girl: https://youtu.be/N7d_RWyOv20 Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/turbulence-thanks Home page: https://www.3blue1brown.com Thanks to Dan Walsh for many great ideas, and thanks to Mike Hansen for many helpful conversations. Error correction: I meant to describe Kolmogorov as a…
From 3Blue1Brown. Go experience the explorable videos: https://eater.net/quaternions Ben Eater’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/eaterbc Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/quaternion-explorable-thanks Previous video on Quaternions: https://youtu.be/d4EgbgTm0Bg Nice explanation of Gimbal Lock: https://youtu.be/zc8b2Jo7mno Great videos comparing Euler angles and quaternions, from the perspective of an animator: https://youtu.be/syQnn_xuB8U https://youtu.be/4mXL751ko0w Music by Vincent Rubinetti: https://vincerubinetti.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-3blue1brown —————— 3blue1brown is a channel about…
From 3Blue1Brown. How to think about this 4d number system in our 3d space. Brought to you by you: http://3b1b.co/quaternion-thanks Interact with these visuals: http://3imaginary1real.com Quanta article on quaternions: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra-20180906/ The math of Alice in Wonderland: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427391-600-alices-adventures-in-algebra-wonderland-solved/ —————— If you want to contribute translated subtitles or to help review those that have already been made…