What are your favorite mindblowing mathematics videos?

bionicjoey , 6 months ago

There’s a video I remember seeing from Matt Parker where the top comment was just 3B1B saying “Woah”. I’ll see if I can find it.

Here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghxQA3vvhsk

abbadon420 , 6 months ago

I like StandUpMaths. this one about the alabama paradox got me hooked

NotMelon , 6 months ago

Anything Vsauce ever made. G.O.A.T.

cll7793 OP , 6 months ago

Vsauce is awesome! He makes you question everything after each video!

Also…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/261a32e3-9500-4a83-99fe-26e3daee5094.png

simple , 6 months ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB0wsQrMC3c

OccamsTeapot , 6 months ago

Maybe not mindblowing but the Mathologer guy has some good, not so “pop maths” videos. I like this one about the 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + … = -1/12 absurdity that they spoke about on Numberphile

sin_free_for_00_days , 6 months ago

I think thisplaylist of old Herb Gross calculus lectures is pretty amazing. Aside from video quality.

cll7793 OP , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Some of my favorites are from Edward Frenkel and the Langlands Program. In analogy the Langlands Program can be thought of as the “Theory of Everything” of mathematics linking various seemingly disconnected fields together.

Another great video is from 3b1b where he shows Pi somehow emerge from 2 blocks colliding against each other.

Links

• YouTube - The Langlands Program - Numberphile
• YouTube - Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox
• Wikipedia - Langlands Program
• YouTube - Why do colliding blocks compute pi?
• YouTube - The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle

Atelopus-zeteki , 6 months ago

It's pretty basic, but for me when I first saw it, I was blown away.
Donald in Mathmagic Land 1959 (https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hl6JDv4ZG7U) - in Technicolor!!