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  • Rode Lavalier Lapel Microphone Uses

    A lav mic (More specifically a Rode Lavalier Lapel Omni-Directional Condenser Microphone)

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  • Focusrite Scarlett Solo Uses

    USB Audio Interface to take the feed from the mic to the computer (Focusrite Scarlett Solo)

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  • Wacom tablet Liked

    During my time at Khan Academy, I found using a Wacom tablet worked quite nicely

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  • Desmos Recommends

    It's an online graphing calculator that makes it very simple to whip up surprisingly complicated graphs. I found it abundantly useful for live presentations over a stream, and what's nice is that you can share the links of what you build so that students can play with them.

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  • Itempool Liked

    Also, and I'll admit I'm biased because it was built by friends, the act of actually writing math questions on Itempool is a delight

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  • OBS Studio Uses

    In OBS you can set up keyboard shortcuts, so I set up a few to associate certain keys under the lefthand of my keyboard with different scenes so that I could switch between them easily

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  • Patrick JMT Recommends

    If you want good, honest worked examples of practice problems, especially for calculus, it's hard to find a deeper well of examples than what this channel provides.

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  • Black Pen Red Pen Recommends

    If you like seeing how to work out integrals in all sorts of crazy ways, boy is this the channel for you. Steven is a math teacher, and the videos have a feeling of being in office hours, honestly working through problems with a very skillful and enthusiastic teacher. Many of the problems covered are the kind you might come across in school, and many or just for fun.

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  • Welch Labs Recommends

    this channel is full of high production quality and well-written videos. There are also several series on machine learning, the topics underlying self-driving cars, so this is certainly one of the more applied math channels out there.

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  • Looking Glass Universe Recommends

    She covers ideas from physics and math explained simply and unusually honestly.

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  • Standup Maths Recommends

    This channel is more whimsical and comedic, but that's not to say there isn't a lot of serious math it covers.

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  • Numberphile Recommends

    I'm guessing if you're here, you already know about Numberphile. If somehow you don't, it's a great channel full of interviews with mathematicians.

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  • Mathologer Recommends

    Half of the appeal here comes from the delightful bits of math this channel covers, often with novel ways of presenting otherwise extremely complicated topics to make them easier.

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  • Khan Academy Recommends

    They are probably most famous for the videos Sal does, but arguably the site is most valuable as a source of problems you can drill on, starting from the very basics if necessary. I may be biased, though, given that I used to work there!

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  • Mathigon Recommends

    Mathigon is a very beautifully done set of interactive articles on all sorts of fun topics in math. The experience sits somewhere between reading and playing a game, with a really wonderful blend of artwork, technology and pedagogical clarity.

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  • The Art of Problem Solving Loved

    The original Art of Problem Solving book by Richard Rusczyk, by the way, was one of the things that made me fall in love with creative math as a young student.

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  • Brilliant Recommends

    I know a few of the people there, and I can vouch for the fact that they are extremely thoughtful about what makes for good learning. It shows in the product. Rather than putting lectures and videos front and center, problems and puzzles take precedence, all presented in a structured progression.

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  • Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors Recommends

    Leave it to Matt Parker to write an entire book about making mistakes in math.

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  • Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe Recommends

    This is another wonderful book aiming to popularize calculus (2019 was a good year for that goal). What I enjoyed about this one is how broad a view Strogatz takes of the origins of calculus, ranging from the clever proofs Archimedes was developing up to Fourier's study of heat.

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  • Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World Recommends

    I feel like Ben Orlin solved what was previously an unsolved problem with this book: Teach calculus in a way that is as enjoyable to those unfamiliar with the topic as it is to experts who use it every day. I, for one, was laughing from page 1.

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  • Chaos: Making a New Science Loved

    This is one of my all-time favorite books, closely followed by everything else Gleick has written. It gives an inspiring look at the birth of a new field, and unlike many popular science books, it manages to talk substantively about the math that was being discovered.

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  • The Princeton Companion to Mathematics Recommends

    Books can never replace the intuition available if there's a professor down the hall whose door you can knock on to start asking questions. However, this book gets pretty close.

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  • Primes of the Form x^2 + n y^2 Recommends

    This might seem like a bizarrely specific question to write a whole book about, but that's actually the charm. It covers deep and general ideas, such as class field theory and elliptic functions, which are usually only taught to graduate students, but Cox approaches it all from an extremely concrete question which Fermat thought about.

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  • Fourier Analysis: An Introduction Recommends

    Not only is this a wonderful foundation for Fourier analysis, with a surprising and satisfying application to prime numbers given in the last chapter, but it's also a good starting point for analysis as a whole. Stein and Shakarchi have a series of four excellent books on the foundations of analysis, based on a now-famous series of lectures given at Princeton.

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  • The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class Recommends

    The strength of this book is the central role it places on problems. Its aim is to teach you about inequalities, which are the backbone of analysis. But it's all too easy to teach the statement of an inequality without conveying the intuition for when and how you'd use it. By focusing on well-chosen puzzles, this book does an admirable job circumventing that risk and leaving you with the feeling of having trained a skill, rather than having learned a list of facts.

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  • Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms Recommends

    Information theory has a way of shaping the way you view many things in math, computer science, physics, and beyond. It's one of those fields that takes ideas that you wouldn't think of as being quantifiable or rigorous and makes them so.

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  • The Art Of Probability Recommends

    Hamming was a practitioner, spending much of his career in Bell Labs, so unlike many books on probability, this stays grounded in the kind of intuitions that come up a lot in solving practical problems. It has countless helpful puzzles and problem-solving tricks which are organized in such a way as to give a sense of the deeper theory underlying probability and statistics.

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  • Ordinary Differential Equations Recommends

    If you want to understand differential equations, but more from the pure math side of things, Arnold gives a wonderful picture of what the field is all about, with a mixture of high-level intuitions and low-level details, with a satisfying focus on visual and physical intuition along the way.

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  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Recommends

    Steven Strogatz is one of the most well-known math communicators, and for good reason. He has a way of making you love a problem before diving into telling you how it's solved. Chaos is an incredibly fascinating field, which has only emerged relatively recently in the history of math. This is the well-deserved gold standard for understanding what it's all about.

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  • Proofs from the book Recommends

    If you like clever proofs, this is the book for you. It's filled with some of the most elegant arguments in math, taken from combinatorics, geometry, graph theory, analysis, set theory, and more. I can't think of any other books with a higher density of "aha" moments.

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  • Visual Group Theory Recommends

    Another text with a titular promise to focus on pictures, this one tackles a subject which is more commonly taught purely symbolically. One of the most important things for any student learning about groups to understand is just how many different ways there are to think about a group, and how different views might be helpful in different contexts. Again, I wouldn't use this as the only book to understand the topic, but it offers a refreshingly different perspective on the topic from most others out there to help arm your arsenal of intuitions.

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  • Visual Complex Analysis Recommends

    As the title suggests, this offers a highly pictorial introduction to complex analysis. I would not use this as the only text to learn about complex analysis, but Needham does a marvelous job of conveying the beauty of the subject, with numerous helpful intuitions for otherwise famously tricky ideas.

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  • An Introduction to Thermal Physics Loved

    Despite my aim to keep this list purely about math books, I cannot help but include this one in the list. Simply put, it's one of the most enjoyable textbooks I've ever read, giving a very satisfying first-principles understanding of what thermodynamic concepts like temperature and entropy really are, and how we can to understand them.

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  • Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach Recommends

    This is what I wish I learned from in my freshman year of college. The part of it about linear algebra is one of the best linear algebra resources out there, and remainder shows you how those tools apply to non-linear mathematics.

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  • 3Blue1Brown.com 3 Sept
  • manim — Animation engine for explanatory math videos 1 Sept
  • Peer review for SoME5 25 Aug
  • caption_ops 25 Aug
  • videos — Code for the manim-generated scenes used in 3blue1brown videos 25 Aug
  • New puzzle, as part of the series of monthly puzzlers with @MoMath1. As a variant: What if you start with pegs in all four corners of the square, and you want… 19 Aug

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  • But what is cross-entropy? 16 Jul
  • On monthly puzzles 17 Jun
  • Suppose you wanted to reinvent the idea of Shannon Entropy for yourself. This puzzle is a good place to start (Full video on YouTube). 10 Jun
  • Reinventing Entropy 7 Jun
  • With this lineup of speakers, this promises to be very interesting. 1 May Quoting@jdlichtmanThe Future of Mathematics Symposium is being held on May 1st-2nd! We have a truly exceptional group of speakers, with multiple Fields Medal…
  • This video was a complete joy to make. Here's a short preview, but next time you're looking to sit down for 45 minutes of math and art, take a look at the full… 22 Mar
  • Escher's most mathematically interesting piece 22 Mar
  • Happy Pi Day! In a certain sense, π is not a constant, but a variable. Using our usual Euclidean distance, it is 3.14159… but applying other L^p norms on ℝ², h… 14 Mar
  • Well, math terminology being what it is, something like this was bound to happen eventually. (If you're curious about why these balls are so puny, the full tal… 27 Feb
  • The most underappreciated formula 27 Feb
  • New video! Memorable for its delightfully absurd name, the Hairy Ball Theorem is extremely beautiful and has some surprising applications. Full video here: 31 Jan
  • The Hairy Ball Theorem 31 Jan
  • SoME4 Prizes 16 Jan
  • Recruiting, both for myself and for other companies (potentially yours) 4 Dec 2025
  • In case you're unfamiliar, the @prisonmathproj is a nonprofit supporting prisoners learning math. There is a great podcast on Numberphile with its founder, Chr… 2 Dec 2025 Quoting@prisonmathprojThis Giving Tuesday, consider the gift of second chances. What if you could actually gift someone a second chance? With your help, we can #…
  • The next video in the Laplace Transform sequence is up! https://t.co/Ln1CXghmBj Here, we dig into a concrete example, the forced oscillator. Some of you may re… 5 Nov 2025
  • How Laplace transforms solve differential equations 5 Nov 2025
  • Ever since I made a video about Fourier Transforms, one of the most requested topics on the channel has been its close cousin, the Laplace Transform. I've been… 12 Oct 2025
  • But what is a Laplace Transform? 12 Oct 2025
  • Why complex exponents matter 5 Oct 2025
  • There is a lot about Euclid’s Elements that is easily misunderstood. Some proofs seem to have logical gaps. Some constructions seem pointless, others seem need… 18 Sept 2025
  • Why Ruler and Compass? 18 Sept 2025
  • Exploration & Epiphany 7 Sept 2025
  • New video about a piece by the modern artist Sol LeWitt, and the group theory behind it. 7 Sept 2025
  • Guest video 3/5 while I'm on leave is now up! It's by a former SoME winner, covering key ideas in statistical mechanics to create a simple and discrete model m… 28 Aug 2025
  • Simulating Phase Change 28 Aug 2025
  • Hey, psst, you can find early views for two upcoming guest videos on Patreon, one about statistical mechanics and another covering a story of modern art and gr… 23 Aug 2025
  • New video on the details of diffusion models: https://t.co/rRjJehNuF3 Produced by @welchlabs, this is the first in a small series of 3b1b this summer. I enjoye… 25 Jul 2025
  • captions — transcripts and captions for 3blue1brown videos 30 Nov 2024
  • site_demo 10 Apr 2021
  • OBS Studio 2 Jul 2020 Uses
  • Itempool 2 Jul 2020 Liked
  • Desmos 2 Jul 2020 Recommends
  • Wacom tablet 2 Jul 2020 Liked
  • Focusrite Scarlett Solo 2 Jul 2020 Uses
  • Rode Lavalier Lapel Microphone 2 Jul 2020 Uses
  • Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach 1 Jun 2020 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • An Introduction to Thermal Physics 1 Jun 2020 Lovedaffiliate link
  • Visual Complex Analysis 1 Jun 2020 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • Visual Group Theory 1 Jun 2020 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • Proofs from the book 1 Jun 2020 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos 1 Jun 2020 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • Ordinary Differential Equations 1 Jun 2020 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • The Art Of Probability 1 Jun 2020 Recommendsaffiliate link
  • Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms 1 Jun 2020 Recommendsaffiliate link