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The best videos about numbers
A curated library of outstanding explainers on primes, unsolved problems, surprising statistics and the math behind AI.
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Numbers in the real world
Number 1 and Benford’s Law
Numberphile — why leading digits in real-world data are far more often 1 than 9, and how auditors use it to spot fraud.
The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve
Veritasium — the Collatz conjecture.
Math’s Fundamental Flaw
Veritasium — Gödel, Turing and the limits of mathematics.
Primes and deep math
Why do prime numbers make these spirals?
3Blue1Brown — Dirichlet’s theorem and pi approximations.
But what is the Riemann zeta function?
3Blue1Brown — visualising analytic continuation.
The math behind AI
But what is a neural network?
3Blue1Brown — deep learning, chapter 1.
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