Instructional Video11:04
TED Talks

Michael Hansmeyer: Building unimaginable shapes

12th - Higher Ed
Inspired by cell division, Michael Hansmeyer writes algorithms that design outrageously fascinating shapes and forms with millions of facets. No person could draft them by hand, but they're buildable -- and they could revolutionize the...
Instructional Video1:09
MinutePhysics

The Hairy Ball Theorem

12th - Higher Ed
Ever tried to comb a hairy ball? Math says you failed!
Instructional Video19:46
TED Talks

Hans Rosling: The best stats you've ever seen

12th - Higher Ed
You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world."
Instructional Video3:44
TED Talks

David Hoffman: Sputnik mania

12th - Higher Ed
Filmmaker David Hoffman shares footage from his feature-length documentary Sputnik Mania, which shows how the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957 led to both the space race and the arms race -- and jump-started science and math...
Instructional Video4:30
SciShow

No, We Didn't Discover a Bizarro Universe | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists picked up two unusual signals that seemed to be coming up from the ground instead of down from space. They're still working on understanding why, but despite what you may have heard, they aren't evidence for a parallel...
Instructional Video19:49
3Blue1Brown

Sneaky Topology (The Borsuk-Ulam theorem)

12th - Higher Ed
Solving a discrete math puzzle, namely the stolen necklace problem, using topology, namely the Borsuk Ulam theorem
Instructional Video10:17
3Blue1Brown

Backpropagation calculus | Appendix to deep learning chapter 3

12th - Higher Ed
The math of backpropagation, the algorithm by which neural networks learn.
Instructional Video5:38
3Blue1Brown

Higher order derivatives | Footnote, Essence of calculus

12th - Higher Ed
What is the second derivative? Third derivative? How do you think about these?
Instructional Video5:06
3Blue1Brown

How secure is 256 bit security?

12th - Higher Ed
When a piece of cryptography is described as having "256-bit security", what exactly does that mean? Just how big is the number 2^256?
Instructional Video9:16
Amoeba Sisters

Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

12th - Higher Ed
Explore the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium equations with The Amoeba Sisters! Learn why this equation can be useful, its five assumptions, and how to calculate genotype and allele frequencies with p and q values! This video does assume the...
Instructional Video4:37
TED-Ed

Can you cheat death by solving this riddle? | Shravan S K

Pre-K - Higher Ed
You and your best friend Bill are the greatest bards in the kingdom— but maybe not the brightest. Your hit song has insulted the king and now you're slated for execution. Luckily, Death is a connoisseur of most excellent music and has...
Instructional Video5:09
TED-Ed

Can you solve Dongle's Difficult Dilemma? | Dennis E. Shasha

Pre-K - Higher Ed
According to legend, three galactic terraformers shaped your planet into a paradise. When their work was done, they left the source of their power behind: three golden hexagons, hidden in dungeons full of traps and monsters. If one...
Instructional Video7:40
3Blue1Brown

Triangle of Power

12th - Higher Ed
Logarithms are confusing, but perhaps some alternate notation could make them more intuitive.
Instructional Video7:39
PBS

Are Prime Numbers Made Up?

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video6:00
TED Talks

Max Little: A test for Parkinson's with a phone call

12th - Higher Ed
Parkinson's disease affects 6.3 million people worldwide, causing weakness and tremors, but there's no objective way to detect it early on. Yet. Applied mathematician and TED Fellow Max Little is testing a simple, cheap tool that in...
Instructional Video4:19
TED Talks

Jedidah Isler: How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe

12th - Higher Ed
Jedidah Isler first fell in love with the night sky as a little girl. Now she's an astrophysicist who studies supermassive hyperactive black holes. In a charming talk, she takes us trillions of kilometers from Earth to introduce us to...
Instructional Video17:02
TED Talks

Hannah Fry: The mathematics of love

12th - Higher Ed
Finding the right mate is no cakewalk -- but is it even mathematically likely? In a charming talk, mathematician Hannah Fry shows patterns in how we look for love, and gives her top three tips (verified by math!) for finding that special...
Instructional Video3:56
SciShow

DeepDream: Inside Google's 'Daydreaming' Computers

12th - Higher Ed
It may produce creepy images with way too many dogs and eyeballs, but Google’s DeepDream program is actually a valuable window into artificial intelligence.
Instructional Video16:51
TED Talks

Ron Eglash: The fractals at the heart of African designs

12th - Higher Ed
'I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof.' That is how Ron Eglash greeted many African families he met while researching the fractal patterns he'd noticed in villages across the continent.
Instructional Video13:46
3Blue1Brown

Dot products and duality: Essence of Linear Algebra - Part 9 of 15

12th - Higher Ed
What is the dot product? What does it represent? Why does it have the formula that it does? All this is explained visually.
Instructional Video12:08
TED Talks

TED: Want kids to learn well? Feed them well | Sam Kass

12th - Higher Ed
What can we expect our kids to learn if they're hungry or eating diets full of sugar and empty of nutrients? Former White House Chef and food policymaker Sam Kass discusses the role schools can play in nourishing students' bodies in...
Instructional Video11:19
TED Talks

Eugenia Cheng: An unexpected tool for understanding inequality: abstract math

12th - Higher Ed
How do we make sense of a world that doesn't? By looking in unexpected places, says mathematician Eugenia Cheng. She explains how applying concepts from abstract mathematics to daily life can lead us to a deeper understanding of things...
Instructional Video8:46
SciShow

Game Theory: The Science of Decision-Making

12th - Higher Ed
With up to ten years in prison at stake, will Wanda rat Fred out? Game theory is looking at human interactions through the lens of mathematics.
Instructional Video3:53
TED Talks

Terry Moore: Why is 'x' the unknown?

12th - Higher Ed
Why is 'x' the symbol for an unknown? In this short and funny talk, Terry Moore gives the surprising answer.