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Curated by: Zach Star (274 videos)

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Tracks in this Playlist

• You (probably) don't have a top 10 favorite movies
• When people find out you studied engineering
• The algorithm from The Social Network
• How do we know....(these random things) - Earth & Space Edition
• The guy who invented mathematical logic
• The guy who invented quantum physics
• How do we know...(these random things)?
• What is cosine similarity (and its applications)?
• Responding to comments on my flat earth video
• When you ask the internet any math question
• How to compress an image with (basic) linear algebra
• The first engineer (well, not really)
• The math that proves the Earth isn't flat
• How big is 1 billion?
• When your friend asks you to engineer the Matrix
• Probability is just...really weird
• Just 3 questions/puzzles that seem obvious but aren't
• The History of Engineering (in exactly 20 minutes)
• When Isaac Newton discovers gravity (and everything else)
• Probably the weirdest function I encountered as an engineering student
• How I wish logistic growth was taught to me in Calc 2
• The intuition behind the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem
• Why following your compass will (almost) always lead you to the North or South Pole | Math of Maps
• When you're an engineer in the Star Wars Universe
• Why do Electrical Engineers use imaginary numbers in circuit analysis?
• The scariest thing you learn in Electrical Engineering | The Smith Chart
• When you're an engineer for the Titan submersible
• Ranking all 22 engineering classes I took in college
• Each point is connected to its closest neighbor, how many connections can a single point have (max)?
• Why shadows (almost) always trace out hyperbolas (but it depends on where you live).
• What are the odds that 3 'random' points on a sphere will form an acute triangle?
• Engineering jobs in the future (probably) be like...
• How should you arrange 7 water fountains in a mall to minimize the longest possible walk?
• You can always win this game if you go second | An SOS (math olympiad) puzzle
• The Poker Paradox
• The Sierpinski-Mazurkiewicz Paradox (is really weird)
• Watching a movie (or TV show) with a STEM major be like
• A 1957 Putnam exam problem
• Can you always pair an equal number of red and blue points with no intersection?
• The Mathematics of the Casino | What people get wrong about gambling
• Engineering in movies be like
• If Saw was a typical engineering student
• Can you always cover 10 points with 10 equally sized (non-overlapping) coins?
• The applications of hyperbolic trig | Why do we even care about these things?
• How you can solve dice puzzles with polynomials
• No you guys, most shapes do not have a center of mass with this property (but some do)
• A surprising topological proof - Why you can always cut three objects in half with a single plane
• Teaching myself abstract algebra
• When you tutor the kid who cheated their way through school #shorts
• Approximations. The engineering way.
• What changes? | A lesson in statistics, incentives, and internet stupidity
• Is there (always) a line that passes through exactly 2 points?
• What I've been reading | STEM book recommendations
• STEM students in non STEM classes be like...
• Random things
• An inverted pendulum puzzle
• The Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, a proof from real analysis
• Teaching myself an upper level pure math course (we almost died)
• The intuition and implications of the complex derivative
• Could you avoid being hit by a laser if you were in a room of mirrors?
• A donut is not a sphere | Things you can do on one surface but not the other
• Why imaginary numbers are needed to understand the radius of convergence
• Engineering students be like...(Part 2)
• The applications of non-euclidean distance | Metric Spaces
• If the hour and minute hand on a clock look identical, can you always determine the time?
• What happens at infinity? - The Cantor set
• Things get weird at infinity
• What would we see if we lived on a hypersphere?
• We likely live in one of these 18 universes
• These changed how I think about higher dimensions
• The real world applications of the dot product
• This is why you're learning differential equations
• Symmetry Puzzles
• It really seems like our universe could be part of a hypersphere, but... it's probably not
• Math and physics can show up when you least expect
• Parity Puzzles
• Second Channel Announcement
• Engineering students be like
• What if the universe had a higher dimensional twist in it?
• This question seems like it requires calculus, but it actually has a much more clever solution
• Does math belong in the courtroom?
• A google and amazon interview question with a really clever solution
• When your boss always finds extra work for you to do
• Simple, yet counterintuitive mathematics | Why numbers don't always mean what you think
• Dear linear algebra students, This is what matrices (and matrix manipulation) really look like
• An unexpected application of the harmonic series
• Curves we (mostly) don't learn in high school (and applications)
• The Poisoned Drinks Problem
• The Lost Fisherman Problem | What is the most efficient way back to shore?
• Dear all calculus students, This is why you're learning about optimization
• What does mathematical induction really look like?
• When the FBI had too many fingerprints in storage | The mathematics of image compression
• Dear Calculus 2 Students, This is why you're learning Taylor Series
• Goodbye MajorPrep....(It's Clickbait, just a channel name change)
• Random things that will (likely) surprise you
• Engineers in math class be like...
• I made a (free) linear algebra tool | What I use to make my videos
• The applications of eigenvectors and eigenvalues | That thing you heard in Endgame has other uses
• The intuition behind Fourier and Laplace transforms I was never taught in school
• How do complex numbers actually apply to control systems?