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?
3Blue1Brown
Cross products in the light of linear transformations | Essence of linear algebra chapter 11
The formula for the cross product can feel like a mystery, or some kind of crazy coincidence. But it isn't. There is a fundamental connection between the cross product and determinants.
3Blue1Brown
Feynman's Lost Lecture
This video recounts a lecture by Richard Feynman giving an elementary demonstration of why planets orbit in ellipses. See the excellent book by Judith and David Goodstein, "Feynman's lost lecture”, for the full story behind this lecture,...
3Blue1Brown
Newton's Fractal (which Newton knew nothing about)
Newton's method, and the fractals the ensue
3Blue1Brown
So why do colliding blocks compute pi?
A solution to the puzzle involving two blocks, sliding fricionlessly, where the number of collisions mysteriously computes pi
MinutePhysics
Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown)
Check out Grant’s channel: 3blue1brown. This video recounts a lecture by Richard Feynman giving an elementary demonstration of why planets orbit in ellipses. See the excellent book by Judith and David Goodstein, "Feynman's lost lecture”,...
3Blue1Brown
Dot products and duality | Essence of linear algebra, chapter 7
What is the dot product? What does it represent? Why does it have the formula that it does? All this is explained visually.
SciShow
The Leidenfrost Effect: How to Make a Liquid Levitate
In this video Michael Aranda explains what the Leidenfrost Effect is, and how it can cause liquid to 'levitate'.
3Blue1Brown
Dot products and duality | Essence of linear algebra, chapter 9
What is the dot product? What does it represent? Why does it have the formula that it does? All this is explained visually.
TED Talks
Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that...
Crash Course
Love or Lust? Romeo and Juliet Part II: Crash Course English Literature
In which John Green returns to William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to explore the themes of true love, lust, and whether Romeo and Juliet were truly, deeply in love, or they were just a pair of impetuous teens. How exactly did Romeo...
3Blue1Brown
Cross products in the light of linear transformations | Essence of linear algebra chapter 8 part 2
The formula for the cross product can feel like a mystery, or some kind of crazy coincidence. But it isn't. There is a fundamental connection between the cross product and determinants.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: What is the shape of a molecule? - George Zaidan and Charles Morton
A molecule is nearly all empty space, apart from the extremely dense nuclei of its atoms and the clouds of electrons that bond them together. When that molecule forms, it arranges itself to maximize attraction of opposite charges and...
Crash Course
Of Pentameter & Bear Baiting - Romeo & Juliet Part I: Crash Course English Literature
In which John Green examines Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare. John delves into the world of Bill Shakespeare's famous star-crossed lovers and examines what the play is about, its structure, and the context in which it was written....
3Blue1Brown
What they won't teach you in calculus
A visual for derivatives which generalizes more nicely to topics beyond calculus. Thinking of a function as a transformation, the derivative measure how much that function locally stretches or squishes a given region.
3Blue1Brown
Nonsquare matrices as transformations between dimensions | Essence of linear algebra, chapter 8
How do you think about a non-square matrix as a transformation?
3Blue1Brown
Eigenvectors and eigenvalues | Essence of linear algebra, chapter 10
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors are one of the most important ideas in linear algebra, but what on earth are they?
TED Talks
Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction
In the 1930s, broadcast radio introduced an entirely new form of storytelling; today, micro-blogging platforms like Twitter are changing the scene again. Andrew Fitzgerald takes a look at the (aptly) short but fascinating history of new...
TED Talks
Julie Cordua: How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet
Social entrepreneur Julie Cordua works on a problem that isn't easy to talk about: the sexual abuse of children in images and videos on the internet. At Thorn, she's building technology to connect the dots between the tech industry, law...
PBS
The Geometry of SET
In the card game SET, what is the maximum number of cards you can deal that might not contain a SET?
Bozeman Science
Contour Lines
In this video Paul Andersen explains how contour lines show areas of equal elevation or equal gravitational potential. Contour lines are used as an analogy for lines of equipotential in electric fields.
TED Talks
Michelle Kuo: The healing power of reading
Reading and writing can be acts of courage that bring us closer to others and ourselves. Author Michelle Kuo shares how teaching reading skills to her students in the Mississippi Delta revealed the bridging power of the written word --...
PBS
Is Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
If you play video games, you've shot a gun. And those guns are REALISTIC. So real that many are actually LICENSED by IRL arms dealers. Which means that when you buy a video game, you're also putting money in the pockets of those gun...
3Blue1Brown
Inverse matrices, column space and null space: Essence of Linear Algebra - Part 7 of 15
How do you think about the column space and null space of a matrix visually? How do you think about the inverse of a matrix?