Mathologer
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Enter the world of the Mathologer for really accessible explanations of hard and beautiful math(s). In real life the Mathologer is a math(s) professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and goes by the name of Burkard Polster. These days Marty Ross another math(s) professor, great friend and collaborator for over 20 years also plays a huge role behind the scenes, honing the math(s) and the video scripts with Burkard. And there are Tristan Tillij and Eddie Price who complete the Mathologer team, tirelessly proofreading and critiquing the scripts and providing lots of original ideas. If you like Mathologer, also check out years worth of free original maths resources on Burkard and Marty's site http://www.qedcat.com.

Parity of permutations, impossible puzzles and the magical determinant
Mathologer · 46K views · 5 months ago

I Built an Original One-Glance Proof from Dice
Mathologer · 39K views · 11 months ago

How to build and solve a 4D Rubik's cubes in physical 3D (no simulator!)
Mathologer · 36K views · 1 year ago

How to Integrate with an AX? The Surprising Power of Planimeters – Visually Explained!
Mathologer · 72K views · 1 year ago

How Did Water Solve the 1800-Year-Old Talmudic Bankruptcy Problem?
Mathologer · 114K views · 1 year ago

The Helicone Numberscope: Mathematical Superpowers Hidden in a Simple Toy
Mathologer · 53K views · 1 year ago

What's the next freak identity? A new deep connection with Sophie Germain primes
Mathologer · 124K views · 1 year ago

Ptolemy’s Theorem and the Almagest: we just found the best visual proof in 2000 years
Mathologer · 113K views · 2 years ago

Way beyond the golden ratio: The power of AB=A+B (Mathologer masterclass)
Mathologer · 165K views · 2 years ago

PETR'S MIRACLE: Why was it lost for 100 years? (Mathologer Masterclass)
Mathologer · 174K views · 2 years ago

Conway's IRIS and the windscreen wiper theorem
Mathologer · 89K views · 2 years ago

Simple yet 5000 years missed ?
Mathologer · 218K views · 2 years ago

What's the curse of the Schwarz lantern?
Mathologer · 181K views · 2 years ago

Why are the formulas for the sphere so weird? (major upgrade of Archimedes' greatest discoveries)
Mathologer · 251K views · 2 years ago

Is this a paradox? (the best way of resolving the painter paradox)
Mathologer · 126K views · 2 years ago

The best A – A ≠ 0 paradox
Mathologer · 473K views · 3 years ago

Why don't they teach simple visual logarithms (and hyperbolic trig)?
Mathologer · 436K views · 3 years ago

Ramanujan's easiest hard infinity monster (Mathologer Masterclass)
Mathologer · 199K views · 3 years ago

Powell’s Pi Paradox: the genius 14th century Indian solution
Mathologer · 564K views · 3 years ago

The Korean king's magic square: a brilliant algorithm in a k-drama (plus geomagic squares)
Mathologer · 139K views · 3 years ago

What's hiding beneath? Animating a mathemagical gem
Mathologer · 154K views · 3 years ago

Fibonacci = Pythagoras: Help save a beautiful discovery from oblivion
Mathologer · 282K views · 3 years ago

Pythagoras twisted squares: Why did they not teach you any of this in school?
Mathologer · 490K views · 3 years ago

Secrets of the lost number walls
Mathologer · 183K views · 4 years ago

Why is calculus so ... EASY ?
Mathologer · 1.9M views · 4 years ago

Heron’s formula: What is the hidden meaning of 1 + 2 + 3 = 1 x 2 x 3 ?
Mathologer · 526K views · 4 years ago

Reinventing the magic log wheel: How was this missed for 400 years?
Mathologer · 381K views · 4 years ago

Tesla’s 3-6-9 and Vortex Math: Is this really the key to the universe?
Mathologer · 4.7M views · 4 years ago

How did Fibonacci beat the Solitaire army?
Mathologer · 178K views · 4 years ago

The 3-4-7 miracle. Why is this one not super famous?
Mathologer · 602K views · 4 years ago