Mathematical reasoning

18 videos about mathematical reasoning that people linked on Reddit, from the Mathematics, Statistics and Computer science shelves.

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45 min Why There's 'No' Quintic Formula (proof without Galois theory)not all wrong

Why There's 'No' Quintic Formula (proof without Galois theory) is a great one, shame there's only one other video on this guy's channel

Mentioned in r/math

15 min Bayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs3Blue1Brown

Posted to r/3Blue1Brown: New video! Bayes theorem, and making probability intuitive

17 min Information Entropy: The Math Behind SurpriseSynapticByte

…deep dive into how we measure "surprise" and why it connects so seamlessly to the tech we use every day. I'd love to hear your thoughts about the video!

Posted to r/visualizedmath

8 min Proof That Computers Can't Do Everything (The Halting Problem)udiprod

Posted to r/programming: This is the greatest explanation of the Halting Problem I have ever seen, but people keep downvoting it because they don't understand and think it's wrong.

34 min Math's Fundamental FlawVeritasium

Mentioned in r/math: Absolute gorgeous mathematics channel like 3blue1brown

25 min But what is a Fourier series? From heat flow to drawing with circles | DE43Blue1Brown

First watch this 3Blue1Brown video on Fourier Series. Then watch his followup video on the Fourier Transform. He gives an excellent intuitive graphical explanation, but I want

Mentioned in r/ElectricalEngineering

57 min HACKENBUSH: a window to a new world of mathOwen Maitzen

I am pretty late to the party, but I really like this video by Owen Maitzen on combinatorial game theory and nimbers. It is well made and has nice visuals and explanations, and I think the topic is qui

Mentioned in r/math

32 min A Strange But Elegant Approach to a Surprisingly Hard Problem (GJK Algorithm)Reducible

Reducible is amazing. Some of the best algorithmic explanations on YouTube. About geometric algebra, I also like sudgylacmoe as you mentioned, but I haven’t found any videos or articles on GA that are particularly motivating. Our modern formulation of mechanics is

Mentioned in r/math

6 min Introduction to Infinity, 1 Essence of Set TheoryMirek Olšák

The series Essence of Set Theory by Miroslav Olšák is criminally underviewed

Mentioned in r/math

36 min p adic numbers. Part 1 of 3: 10-adic integers.Richard E Borcherds

It's such a good explanation. Richard Borcherds has a three-part talk about p-adic numbers aimed at high school students that is also really interesting if you want some further low-level material.

Mentioned in r/math

2 h 6 min Infinite Sets and Foundations (Joel David Hamkins) | Ep. 17Daniel Rubin

Here's my most recent episode with set theorist/logician Joel David Hamkins: I have actual math lecture videos. So far they're all part of a series on the subtle and difficult parts of calculus that always get left out. I try to cover

Mentioned in r/math