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...
SciShow
This Problem Could Break Cryptography
What if, no matter how strong your password was, a hacker could crack it just as easily as you can type it? In fact, what if all sorts of puzzles we thought were hard turned out to be easy? Mathematicians call this problem P vs. NP, it...
Bozeman Science
Mathematics - Biology's New Microscope
Paul Andersen (with the help of PatricJMT) explains why mathematics may be biology's next microscope.
3Blue1Brown
Group theory, abstraction, and the 196,883-dimensional monster
An introduction to group theory, and the monster group.
PBS
A Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
Higher dimensional spheres, or hyperspheres, are counter-intuitive and almost impossible to visualize. Mathematician Kelsey Houston-Edwards explains higher dimensional spheres and how recent revelations in sphere packing have exposed...
3Blue1Brown
The Brachistochrone, with Steven Strogatz: Brachistochrone - Part 1 of 2
A classic problem that Johann Bernoulli posed to famous mathematicians of his time, such as Newton, and how Bernoulli found an incredibly clever solution using properties of light.
3Blue1Brown
The Brachistochrone, with Steven Strogatz
A classic problem that Johann Bernoulli posed to famous mathematicians of his time, such as Newton, and how Bernoulli found an incredibly clever solution using properties of light.
PBS
Unraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
When you think about math, what do you think of? Numbers? Equations? Patterns maybe? How about.... knots? As in, actual tangles and knots?
SciShow
Happy Tau Day!
June 28 is Tau Day! Join SciShow as we celebrate circles by exploring the many uses of twice pi.
TED Talks
TED: The mathematician who cracked Wall Street | Jim Simons
Jim Simons was a mathematician and cryptographer who realized: the complex math he used to break codes could help explain patterns in the world of finance. Billions later, he's working to support the next generation of math teachers and...
TED Talks
Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math of coral
Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic geometry underlying...
SciShow
How Knots Help Us Understand the World
Knots are everywhere in our daily lives, but a new branch of mathematics is taking things to the next level.
PBS
Are Prime Numbers Made Up?
Is math real or simply something made up by mathematicians? You can't physically touch a number yet using numbers we're able to build skyscrapers and launch rockets into space. Mathematician Kelsey Houston-Edwards explains this...
SciShow
Why Can't I Get Rid of This Cowlick?
You or someone you know may have struggled to get a cowlick to just stay down already, but you can take solace in the fact that these inconvenient hair tufts have a lot to teach us about the world around us.
SciShow
This Problem Could Break Cryptography
What if, no matter how strong your password was, a hacker could crack it just as easily as you can type it? In fact, what if all sorts of puzzles we thought were hard turned out to be easy? Mathematicians call this problem P vs. NP, it...
TED Talks
TED: What's so sexy about math? | Cedric Villani
Hidden truths permeate our world; they're inaccessible to our senses, but math allows us to go beyond our intuition to uncover their mysteries. In this survey of mathematical breakthroughs, Fields Medal winner Cedric Villani speaks to...
SciShow
The Impossibly Huge Quasar Group
In 2013, astronomers reported that they'd found what was, at the time, the biggest thing in the known universe.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What is Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox? - Colm Kelleher
Can you ever travel from one place to another? Ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea gave a convincing argument that all motion is impossible - but where's the flaw in his logic? Colm Kelleher illustrates how to resolve Zeno's Dichotomy...
SciShow
The Bernoullis: When Math is the Family Business
If you've ever taken a science or math class, you've probably seen the name "Bernoulli" -- and maybe you assumed it was one person, but that family had a squad of mathematicians.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem | Marcus du Sautoy
Consider the following sentence: "This statement is false." Is that true? If so, that would make the statement false. But if it's false, then the statement is true. This sentence creates an unsolvable paradox; if it's not true and it's...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Euclid's puzzling parallel postulate - Jeff Dekofsky
Euclid, known as the "Father of Geometry," developed several of modern geometry's most enduring theorems--but what can we make of his mysterious fifth postulate, the parallel postulate? Jeff Dekofsky shows us how mathematical minds have...
Curated Video
Pi: Reciting Pi
Watch one champion try to recite Pi to as many digits as he can; and discover what Pi is and why it is useful. Maths - Shape A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s context films show...
Curated Video
Cartesian Coordinates
What do mathematicians imagine a space with four dimensions would look like? Discover the coordinates that are used to describe space, and how these extend to the 4th dimension. Maths - Space A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the...
Curated Video
Calculating Pi: Archimedes
Archimedes' mathematical ability was central to his work as a great engineer. Discover how he came up with the most accurate approximation of Pi in ancient times, by bounding a circle within 96-sided polygons. Maths - History Of Maths A...