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The Rhythm of The Primes #some2 11/02/2025

Music of the Primes

The Rhythm of The Primes #some2 As part of 3blue1brown's summer of math exposition #2, I decided to make a crazy video I've always thought about making, exploring the interlocking nature of...

The 13 Trick 08/21/2025

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d4xzmMuJTWs

The 13 Trick Thanks, mom ❤️This is a video I shared elsewhere a couple years ago before YouTube shorts could be more than a minute long. Today, they can't be more than 3 ...

The Russian Math Feud Behind Google's Trillion Dollar Algorithm 07/29/2025

How many times do you need to shuffle a deck of cards?

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Something Strange Happens When You Keep Squaring 11/05/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRaq4aYPzCc

Something Strange Happens When You Keep Squaring There's a strange number system, featured in the work of a dozen Fields Medalists, that helps solve problems that are intractable with real numbers. Head to...

The Real (Weird) Way We See Numbers 06/26/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRqCs2SUdxY

The Real (Weird) Way We See Numbers SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a video! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓Would it surprise you to learn that fish and birds count i...

A Sudoku Secret to Blow Your Mind - Numberphile 05/16/2024

Geometric proof of a strange Sudoku property

A Sudoku Secret to Blow Your Mind - Numberphile Simon Anthony (from Cracking the Cryptic) reveals the Phistomephel Ring - a hidden feature of ALL Sudoku puzzles. Second video is here: https://youtu.be/h8A...

This 400 year old book should have changed mathematics forever 02/17/2024

Often times, several mathematicians will be working on the same problem or concept at the same time. This is one example of this phenomenon that I had not heard about before. Burgi's reluctance to publicize his discovery kept his name from becoming commonly known in mathematics.

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UK hobbyist stuns maths world with 'amazing' new shapes 06/12/2023

UK hobbyist stuns maths world with 'amazing' new shapes David Smith, a retired print technician from the north of England, was pursuing his hobby of looking for interesting shapes when he stumbled onto one unlike any other in November.

Digits - A daily math puzzle 05/10/2023

Here is an interesting daily challenge for you

Digits - A daily math puzzle Combine numbers to reach the target. New puzzles are available each day.

The unexpected logic behind rolling multiple dice and picking the highest. 05/08/2023

Starting from a simple question - if you roll two dice of the same size and take the larger number, how does this change the expected value (D&D 5e players will recognize this as the Advantage mechanism) - a simple result is derived and then generalized.

The unexpected logic behind rolling multiple dice and picking the highest. Check out Jane Street's icosahedron puzzle:https://www.janestreet.com/IMO2022/2022 International Mathematical Olympiad!https://www.imo2022.org/If you want th...

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