25 Math explainers you may enjoy | SoME3 results 

Winners (in no particular order) - The Mathematics of String Art: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WGccIFf6MF8.html - Minimal Surfaces & the Calculus of Variations: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8SABptOYUVk.html - Pixel Art Anti Aliasing: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d6tp43wZqps.html - Rethinking the real line: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uFWJuZQLKJs.html - How Computers Use Numbers: mabi.land/numbers/ Honorable mentions (also in no particular order) - Escaping a Nuclear Explosion: how the Enola Gay survived: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IEsIXui-YS8.html - A Subtle Aspect of Circular Motion: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AL2Chc6p_Kk.html - Watching Neural Networks Learn: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TkwXa7Cvfr8.html - Mathematical Magic Mirrorball: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rJPKTCdk-WI.html - How did the Ancient Egyptians find this volume without Algebra?: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xmoIrwTsZbg.html - Making a Pitch Shifter: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PjKlMXhxtTM.html - The Mosaic Problem - How and Why to do Math for Fun: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D3dp5RBmPcs.html - When CAN'T Math Be Generalized?: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-krtf-v19TJg.html - Chasing Fixed Points: Greedy Gremlin's Trade-Off: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q8gng_2gn70.html - What Happens If We Add Fractions Incorrectly?: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4d6YrTKmjfE.html - Rotation + Translation = Rotation. Animated proof: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1EpQtVJb0OU.html - The Longest Increasing Subsequence: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6WjnRyYLmM4.html - How Infinity Works: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FzuMSJTysmg.html - Affording a Planet With Geometry: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jSYX6pN_sAs.html - The Art of Linear Programming: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E72DWgKP_1Y.html - Can you guess this shape from its shadows?: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Cnhr6VaQKlg.html - Matrix Arcade: yizhe-ang.github.io/matrix-explorable/ - Functions are Vectors: thenumb.at/Functions-are-Vectors/ - Cayley Graphs and Pretty Things: juliapoo.github.io/mathematics/2023/07/15/plotting-cayley-graphs.html - How does a computer/calculator compute logarithms?: zachartrand.github.io/SoME-3/

This is what a real "influencer" looks like! Creating a huge influx of math content for the public and motivating a large collection of individuals to attempt the learning and exploration necessary to submit a video. So grateful for 3b1b and this competition for pushing me outside my comfort zone!

I imagine that SoME will almost single handedly increase the amount of undergrads becoming math majors. The effect of making math much more accessible and showing that math isnt just "solve for x" or "plug in the formula" is immeasurable.

So grateful to have been chosen as a winner - thank you 3b1b and everyone! Congrats to the other winners and honorable mentions, and everyone else who contributed, so much cool content. It’s pretty awesome how amazing the RU-vid math community is these days, I feel the community does so much for growing appreciation and interest for math.

Thank you Grant and team for helping these videos come into the world! Excited to watch some of them

SoME is such a great yearly event. It's always fun to be introduced to new math channels that got their start here, and all the high quality videos they make. Surely some of them have already grown significantly.

I am honored to be selected and be part of a 3b1b video. Thanks so much to Grant and team for such a great event, and to all the reviewers and contributors to this event, we are all together in this joy of flooding the internet with math content. Grant and SoME has been the catalyst for so many of us, new creators, to be exposed to a huge audience

Thank you so, so, much for picking me as one of the winners! Congrats to everyone who participated, of course - the whole point of the competition wasn't really to win, after all. Indeed, participating in SoME3 has made me think about all kinds of competitions (hackathons, CTFs, math olympiads, etc.) differently: the point is not to win, but to make/do something cool, whether that be an app, a puzzle solution or a satisfying proof. If one person enjoys my entry, I'd consider myself a winner. Even if I don't end up submitting anything, the creative process itself is immensely satisfying to me, and can often inspire further ideas - which is why I'll be making a build system for creating interactive articles like mine ("How Computers Use Numbers"). And even if no one except me will use it, I'll be satisfied in that I'll have made something cool.

You motivated me to start creating videos for my students in Czech language. Unfortunately for that reason I cannot join the exposition but it's very interesting to see the work of others.

Oh my! I never thought I’d say this, but it is so nice to be nominated! Thank you again Grant for running this contest and giving small channels like ours a place in the spotlight for a second. Congratulations to everyone!

Thrilled to be announced as a winner to the some3 contest! Thanks so much for organising, Grant et al. It was also a delight to watch the other entries as well. Definitely a lot of gems in there. Im glad that there's room in youtube to carve out a space which isn't just cats playing piano.

It was so fulfilling to participate this year. The energy of this community is beyond amazing ❤

Thanks to all the partcipants, winners and non-winners. You all make an effort to communicate the beauty of mathmatics to the rest of the world.

Thank you for hosting this competition! I never expected to win tbh, I started by being curious what cayley graphs look like and making the tool, and then decided that whatever ill write some stuff abt it and submit. That's why it seems to lack motivation and goes all over the place, it's cuz i was simply documenting stuff I noticed when making the tool. I'm glad people enjoyed it regardless! I'm pretty blown away by the quality of the other submissions, almost like I don't belong in with the other winners. There's so much cool stuff made by others and I'm happy to be part of it this time.

This is basically the equivalent of the Fields Medal for RU-vid 😀 The real winners being viewers like me who find math interesting

Thank you for all the great content the SoME series has generated. Over the summer, I visited several science museums with my kids, and many of them have a smattering of Astronomy, Dinosaurs, Geology and Minerals, etc. One museum even had a traveling exhibit of how Pixar movies are made. But I realized, I’ve never seen even a small math exhibit at any of the science, engineering, aviation, etc museums I’ve visited. I think there’s an opportunity to make a kid friendly math exhibit for a larger science museum.

Im so happy to be alive in the time where it is so motivated for people to make math-related content on RU-vid, my enormous thanks to you, Grant, you’re making an enormous impact on RU-vid and math.

I have watched enough of the summer of math videos, that the algorithm just randomly recommends some of the videos. So it is almost uncanny how many of these videos I have seen. Great work to everyone involved!

Many thanks to you and to the people who organize this SoME thing. It is always a pleasure to watch the entries.

Thank you so much for choosing me as an honorable mention! Also, thank you to all the judges, reviewers, and everyone organizing the competition. Without it, I probably would never have made a video and gotten started in this direction in the first place. I am sure this is also true for so many other participants!! Great job organizing the event!

I've watched so many of these videos and I didn't even realize they were SoME3 submissions, they were some of my favorite math videos over the past year, so this is just great to see for them.

Thank you for hosting this! It was a wonderful experience judging!

I love how the contest leads to more great math videos. It’s really cool seeing a random video in my recommendations and only now realizing it was a SoME video!

Thank you 3b1b team for making these math explainers possible. I genuinely wouldn't be here if you didn't exist, and I have now found my new best subject and can explain it intuitively, again thanks to you. Honestly you are a hero, and keep this up! Love to see what you all have to offer next year!

i dont follow SoME too closely, but its always a delight to watch these recap videos and see mentions of various videos i had watched throughout the summer simply because they showed up in my recommended (and i end up loving them!) thank you for pushing this platform in such a positive direction, there are so many layers to it and you handle it in a remarkable way 💜

I was only mildly interested in following SoME this year. I clicked on this video expecting to spend 20 minutes skimming through a few of the highlighted works that seemed cool. Well, it's been two and a half hours and I've been on the edge of my seat. This content is fantastic.

Congrats to all the winners and honourable mentions. It was such a great experiences working for the entries.

Much love for this channel and this amazing project. This year, I had already seen many of the videos on RU-vid's recommendation and I'm glad to have been singled out in this way by the platform's algorithm. This is my idealized internet - like a virtual Oldenburg's third place - around this channel, a pretty nice community emerges.

I absolutely LOVED “mate in omega, the great phenomenon of infinite chess” by naviary, amazingly cool stuff

3b1b telling us about more maths channels? I'm in!

Honestly, 3b1b has revolutionized math communication. I very sincerely see this project of 'math exposition summers' to be as radical and history-shaping as some groundbreaking events in history like the invention of printing. Especially since it is guided by Grant Sanderson's closest-to-perfect (but also plausible and intuitive) criteria for what makes a good explanation. I really hope Grant will write a book instructing and giving the best recipe for a (close to) perfect math explanation. This way I believe textbooks will really improve and I won't have to spend weeks trying to find a book whose explanation fits my guidelines. Just look at the submissions and you'll see what I mean. I really just can't stress enough my gratitude for 3b1b and how much of a grace it is. Thank you.

Thank you for organizing this. I will now proceed to watch many creators that I never would have encountered! Really appreciate it! Thanks

Thank you Grant for continuing to make some of the absolute best content in this world. You bring beauty and understanding to so many complex and difficult subjects. And thanks to all the content creators that submitted entries for this contest. I will be checking out each and every one.

I'm so happy SoME is a thing, it has brought me so much interesting knowledge. Some that I use but also some that I was just curious about. Thanks for making it a thing and thanks to all of the amazing contenders!

The art of linear programming actually came up in my recommended videos this summer and I've had it on my Watch Later list! Haven't had a chance to watch it yet but glad to see this doing great work and generating some awesome content

I watched quite a few of those and I very much appreciate the SoME in general - so many amazing explainers this summer!

Wooo! Gonna edit this because I just finished the video, but I have honestly never seen such an influx of educational content with a pure motivation to help people as I have from the SOME series. It really is cool, and besides all the 3B1B content that is put out this has really been a huge impact of this channel that you should be proud of.

Thanks again for running this event! I always love seeing what people come up with. I'm a bit disappointed with my own results, but there were a lot of great explainers, so I can't be too upset.

Discovery fiction/how-was-this-process-put-together is genuinely one of my favorite formats for explanation videos. As someone who is enthralled by problem solving and generally pretty good at following along with that kind of stuff I find them incredibly engaging.

Excellent additions to the world of explaining math to the rest of us! 😃

I’m blown away by how many of these videos I watched and had no idea they were related to the SoME3. Grant, thank you for inspiring such a rich environment to grow and develop mathematical reasoning.

SoME is like a festival I eagerly await each year. Thanks a lot...

Again this year I did not have time to actually look for the entries and vote on them. Still I have just ran into and watched many entries in my daily youtube recommendations. Every time so nice. Hope to contribute in some way next time!

Congratulations to all the winners. Amazing list of videos to binge watch during this weekend 😋

"... I imagine a lot of you are watching this video at 1.5x or 2x..." Damn, I did not expect to get called out like that.

There's so much and so many math lessons on RU-vid, I don't think I can possibly watch even a fraction of them. Thanks for the free education, Grant.

Congratulations to everyone! 🎊 And thank you for the "honourable honourable mention" at the very end, Grant!

I'm so grateful to have all this new math content to watch!

It was really worth a lot to share these links with us. I am a curious fanatic. And amid so much low quality, I see that there are people really willing to show really interesting things. 😁👍

A fantastic lineup this year! I've already seen a couple of these and loved them - time to check out the rest (that are within my mental reach, at least :)

i've loved seeing random SoME3 submissions showing up organically on my youtube feed during the past few months. Lots of great submissions!

Thankyou for soME 3b1b , its a wonderful idea, that hopefully introduces me to a lit of new ideas.Also thanks to all the wonderful creators who participated

I really couldn't forget "Non-Euclidean Therapy for AI Trauma" I have watched recently. This style of analog horror is so memorable. Non-euclidian geometry is certanly not a good topic to try to understand in 10th grade, but it definetly was interesting to watch

It's amazing how we have access to all this incredible content

There was one about Minecraft piston extenders and I would highly recommend that one too! It has something for both math people and Minecraft people

I hope a day comes when knowledge is free of cost. Thanks to all the contributors for presenting such complex topics in a fun intuitive way.

This is the best side of the internet for sure. Thanks for organizing and thanks to all the participants.

Wow, half these videos found their way to me organically through the Algorithm over the past several months. Didn't even realize I was watching contest submissions!

I have already watched some of these great and really interesting videos, at least for me!.... Glad that you briefly reviewed them

SoME was an incredible idea and I love how much content it has brought into the youtube environment

This is just brilliant. You've started a Math Revolution Grant!

I love this video. I wish more communities would actively try to support channels trying to generate good content for their potential audience. Great breakdown on which you should watch. Accuracy of the information.

Awesome videos video. So many great entries. Plus: Aha! moment for me about the origin of the phrase "…on the back burner" :)

Nice! There’s some topics I’ve been meaning to look into on here!

Oh God, finally I may see your face! Feels unreal after three months I've been watching your beautiful videos with only your voice. Thank you and greets from Russia!

The calculus of variations is so so beautiful. I can't wait to watch that one. Arggg, not enough time to watch all of these beauties!

C’est vraiment super intéressant de partager toutes ces bonnes vidéos. Merci beaucoup 😊

Thank you soooo much for sharing these nuggets of knowledge. 👍😎🇦🇺

Congrats to the winners and mentions! I did get some positive feedback by entering. Thanks to those who watched. On to building artificial neurons. Perhaps I will try again next year!

imo the when cant math be continued video needed a spotlight!

The video "Watching Neural Networks Learn" blew my mind and changed the way I think about the world, so I was glad to see it on this list

I'm so glad this video exists, a lot of the math in there is useful for me

I can't wait to see what these briilliant creators have made!

Thank you 3b1b, your beautiful work has helped us students worldwide :)

I've seen that one about the mediant/naive addition of fractions. Loved it! I tutor math K-12, and I've mentioned to one or two kids 'That's a different thing called a mediant.'

These are always fantastic

The minimal surface areas video was excellent. There's not a lot of content online covering or motivating the introduction to the calculus of variations and Dr. Bazett did a lovely job. Also it's tough to argue with the content quality of a cheerful guy whose T-shirts include a colorful π tee and the topological deformation of a coffee mug into a doughnut.

what a great asset to the community you are :D

Maybe I'll make a video for SoME4 about the math in my research! I'm so excited! Thank you Grant for doing this event!!

That Matrix arcade game looks great! Definitely checking it out

We are lucky to live when channels like this exist. I wish they existed when I was young.

I'd already watched like half of these, as they were in my recommended. I guess RU-vid knows what I like.

That is a lot of work review ing all the pieces, but also a great pleasure.

I summon you channel every time I struggle with math to renew my love for math.

Thank you for this great list! I love your channel and I would also include Aleph O in this list of math explainers. It has amazing videos explaining difficult concepts in such a brilliant way.

Looking forward to this!

I clicked on this far faster than a healthy person should.

I enjoyed Kuvina's video on the almost platonic solids. Also, I woke up literally when this video came out.

I love your videos!

I love that I organically (well, RU-vid Algorithmically) came across a large fraction of these already. I'd love to see this kind of "competition" in other spaces too, like physics or even non-stem spaces like the humanities.

Thank you so much for carrying out yet another SoMe. The external deadline from your side really pushed me to finally make the video I was envisioning for almost a year now. It's awesome to see so many new math explainers out there. Hope there will be a SoMe4 next year 🎉

you helped me so much, I was supposed to start a physics degree in a week and a half but a war started this morning. thank you.

The mathematics of string art looks so fascinating.

I've only watched three or four SoME videos so far, and my brain is definitely not used to listening to so much in-depth and analytical content, so many years out from my days of taking courses in undergrad and grad-but it's been absolutely wonderful watching so far, and I have far too many weekends of great maths content to watch now. My teaching usually focuses a lot more on applied engineering, so much as I adore pure maths I've never really had a good presence of mind to note teaching topics in maths-but now I'm definitely thinking about what kind of topics can showcase interesting maths themselves in real engineering applications in my field, and whether I have the skills to produce a video at a watchable production quality. (Or maybe I could go playground or article route, those involves skillsets I've proven to myself quite a bit more! I am considering video because I'm interested in video production and have some video editing and audio engineering experience...) Honestly, for topics, I'd probably end up leaning into Fourier or Laplace domain topics, or Laplace and z-domain stability analysis. So much of that in analogue microelectronics. XD

I seriously didn't expect "math influencer" in the future to be a thing back as a kid. ❤

I love the lead in. In 3 words: know your audience. … I like that you give a quick explanation of each. It allows me too open the ones up that I’m interested in. I must’ve missed some of the other years you did this. … The first one I opened up was about Cayley graphs and was disappointed. It failed on my ipad. Oh well, hopefully the other 10 I picked will work.

Omg, I have seen too many of these videos already. The string art video gave me some ideas maybe I will do something with that one day.

It was a great experience! Such a good opportunity for RU-vid newbies like me to get stuck in! Thanks again :)

Thank you 👍

Fantastic!