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13:03
 The Sierpinski-Mazurkiewicz Paradox (is really weird)
5:34
 Watching a movie (or TV show) with a STEM major be like
8:27
 How many pairs of points can be separated by this maximum distance? | A 1957 Putnam exam problem.
7:46
 Can you (always) pair an equal number of red and blue points such that no line segments intersect?
15:44
 The Mathematics of the Casino | What people get wrong about gambling
4:45
 Engineering in movies be like
5:16
 If Saw was a typical engineering student
8:11
 Can you always cover 10 points with 10 equally sized (non-overlapping) coins?
14:45
 The applications of hyperbolic trig | Why do we even care about these things?
10:02
 A dice puzzle you can solve with polynomials
5:42
 No you guys, most shapes do not have a center of mass with this property (but some do)
12:47
 A surprising topological proof - Why you can always cut three objects in half with a single plane
14:41
 Teaching myself abstract algebra
1:00
 When you tutor the kid who cheated their way through school #shorts
13:49
 Approximations. The engineering way.
16:52
 What changes? | A lesson in statistics, incentives, and internet stupidity
9:20
 Is there (always) a line that passes through exactly 2 points?
14:49
 What I've been reading | STEM book recommendations
5:37
 STEM students in non STEM classes be like...
10:40
 Random things
12:18
 An inverted pendulum puzzle
13:30
 The Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, a proof from real analysis
19:28
 Teaching myself an upper level pure math course (we almost died)
14:54
 The intuition and implications of the complex derivative
11:45
 Could you avoid being hit by a laser if you were in a room of mirrors?
9:42
 A donut is not a sphere | Things you can do on one surface but not the other
8:30
 Why imaginary numbers are needed to understand the radius of convergence
6:57
 Engineering students be like...(Part 2)
18:43
 The applications of non-euclidean distance | Metric Spaces
9:46
 If the hour and minute hand on a clock look identical, can you always determine the time?
16:25
 What happens at infinity? - The Cantor set
16:21
 Things get weird at infinity
12:21
 What would we see if we lived on a hypersphere?
13:19
 We likely live in one of these 18 universes
18:54
 These changed how I think about higher dimensions
12:49
 The real world applications of the dot product
18:36
 This is why you're learning differential equations
10:20
 Symmetry Puzzles
16:24
 It really seems like our universe could be part of a hypersphere, but... it's probably not
7:49
 Math and physics can show up when you least expect
12:45
 Parity Puzzles
1:41
 Second Channel Announcement
4:37
 Engineering students be like
15:44
 What if the universe had a higher dimensional twist in it?
5:00
 This question seems like it requires calculus, but it actually has a much more clever solution
22:41
 Does math belong in the courtroom?
5:12
 A google and amazon interview question with a really clever solution
3:16
 When your boss always finds extra work for you to do
14:42
 Simple, yet counterintuitive mathematics | Why numbers don't always mean what you think
16:26
 Dear linear algebra students, This is what matrices (and matrix manipulation) really look like
7:20
 An unexpected application of the harmonic series
14:00
 Curves we (mostly) don't learn in high school (and applications)
8:32
 The Poisoned Drinks Problem
9:15
 The Lost Fisherman Problem | What is the most efficient way back to shore?
16:34
 Dear all calculus students, This is why you're learning about optimization
10:51
 What does mathematical induction really look like?
14:19
 When the FBI had too many fingerprints in storage | The mathematics of image compression
12:36
 Dear Calculus 2 Students, This is why you're learning Taylor Series
6:55
 Goodbye MajorPrep....(It's Clickbait, just a channel name change)
11:51
 Random things that will (likely) surprise you