Bozeman Science
Data
New ReviewIn this video Paul Andersen shows you how to analyze and interpret data in a mini-lesson on Data. Two examples are included in the video and two additional examples are included in the linked thinking slides.
Bozeman Science
Quantitative Analysis
New ReviewIn this video Paul Andersen shows you how to analyze and interpret data in a mini-lesson on quantitative analysis. Two examples are included in the video and two additional examples are included in the linked thinking slides.
Bozeman Science
Statistical Analysis
New ReviewIn this video Paul Andersen shows you how to analyze and interpret data in a mini-lesson on statistical analysis. Two examples are included in the video and two additional examples are included in the linked thinking slides.
Bozeman Science
Mathematical Representations
New ReviewIn this video Paul Andersen shows you how to use mathematical and computational thinking in a mini-lesson on mathematical representations. Two examples are included in the video and two additional examples are included in the linked...
Bozeman Science
Qualitative and Quantitative Data
New ReviewIn this video Paul Andersen shows you how to use mathermatical and computational thinking in a mini-lesson on qualitative and quantitative data. Two examples are included in the video and two additional examples are included in the...
Be Smart
How Did X Become the Unknown (and so much else)?
New ReviewX is everywhere and it’s probably thanks to math. But why is x the symbol for the unknown?
Be Smart
Computers Can Predict When You're Going to Die… Here's How
New ReviewPredictive analytics uses math and historical data to make predictions about the future. It’s used in commerce, sports, politics, social media and tons of other places. And as it turns out, people have been using math to predict people’s...
PBS
Voting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
What is the best voting system? Voting seems relatively straightforward, yet four of the most widely used voting systems can produce four completely different winners.
MinutePhysics
Misconceptions Footnote †: Randomness and Feedback
Footnote to the main video here: https://youtu.be/HUti6vGctQM Feedback loops and spurious correlations! REFERENCES: Spurious correlations: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations Loopy by Nicky Case: http://ncase.me/loopy/...
MinutePhysics
Is the Universe Entirely Mathematical feat. Max Tegmark
Is the Universe Entirely Mathematical feat. Max Tegmark
MinutePhysics
How To Tell If We're Beating COVID-19
This video is a collaboration with Aatish Bhatia about how to see the COVID-19 tipping point - we present a better way to graph COVID-19 coronavirus cases using a logarithmic scale in "phase space" - plotting the growth rate against the...
MinutePhysics
How to Count Infinity
"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities" - Hazel Grace Lancaster, in "The Fault in Our Stars," by John Green
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Does math have a major flaw? | Jacqueline Doan and Alex Kazachek
A mathematician with a knife and ball begins slicing and distributing the ball into an infinite number of boxes. She then recombines the parts into five precise sections. Moving and rotating these sections around, she recombines them to...
MinutePhysics
Why Penrose Tiles Never Repeat
This video is about a better way to understand Penrose tilings (the famous tilings invented by Roger Penrose that never repeat themselves but still have some kind of order/pattern).
SciShow
The Fibonacci Sequence: Nature's Code
Hank introduces us to the most beautiful numbers in nature - the Fibonacci sequence.
SciShow
Why It's Good for COVID-19 Models to Be Wrong
As we react to the predictions that epidemiological models make, changing the ways we act and go about our lives, those estimates can appear totally off. But if a model’s predictions end up being wrong, that might mean it's done exactly...
SciShow
4 Weird Unsolved Mysteries of Math
There are lots of unsolved mysteries in the world of math, and many of them start off with a deceptively simple premise, like: What's the biggest couch you can slide around a 90-degree corner? Hosted by: Michael Aranda
SciShow
How to Predict the Odds of Anything
Statistics! They're every scientist's friend. But they can be easy to misinterpret. Check out this thought exercise with Hank to understand how some mental kung fu known as Bayesian reasoning can use stats to draw some downright...
3Blue1Brown
A quick trick for computing eigenvalues | Essence of linear algebra, chapter 15
A quick way to compute eigenvalues of a 2x2 matrix
Bozeman Science
Mathematics - Biology's New Microscope
Paul Andersen (with the help of PatricJMT) explains why mathematics may be biology's next microscope.
3Blue1Brown
Alice, Bob, and the average shadow of a cube
A story of problem-solving styles, with the central example of finding the average area for the shadow of a cube.
3Blue1Brown
Eigenvectors and eigenvalues: Essence of Linear Algebra - Part 14 of 15
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors are one of the most important ideas in linear algebra, but what on earth are they?