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.

38:56

Parity of permutations, impossible puzzles and the magical determinant

Mathologer · 46K views · 5 months ago

14:38

I Built an Original One-Glance Proof from Dice

Mathologer · 39K views · 11 months ago

37:33

How to build and solve a 4D Rubik's cubes in physical 3D (no simulator!)

Mathologer · 36K views · 1 year ago

35:13

How to Integrate with an AX? The Surprising Power of Planimeters – Visually Explained!

Mathologer · 72K views · 1 year ago

39:58

How Did Water Solve the 1800-Year-Old Talmudic Bankruptcy Problem?

Mathologer · 114K views · 1 year ago

48:21

The Helicone Numberscope: Mathematical Superpowers Hidden in a Simple Toy

Mathologer · 53K views · 1 year ago

32:15

What's the next freak identity? A new deep connection with Sophie Germain primes

Mathologer · 124K views · 1 year ago

32:54

Ptolemy’s Theorem and the Almagest: we just found the best visual proof in 2000 years

Mathologer · 113K views · 2 years ago

49:49

Way beyond the golden ratio: The power of AB=A+B (Mathologer masterclass)

Mathologer · 165K views · 2 years ago

36:31

PETR'S MIRACLE: Why was it lost for 100 years? (Mathologer Masterclass)

Mathologer · 174K views · 2 years ago

16:33

Conway's IRIS and the windscreen wiper theorem

Mathologer · 89K views · 2 years ago

13:48

Simple yet 5000 years missed ?

Mathologer · 218K views · 2 years ago

25:10

What's the curse of the Schwarz lantern?

Mathologer · 181K views · 2 years ago

32:23

Why are the formulas for the sphere so weird? (major upgrade of Archimedes' greatest discoveries)

Mathologer · 251K views · 2 years ago

21:31

Is this a paradox? (the best way of resolving the painter paradox)

Mathologer · 126K views · 2 years ago

24:48

The best A – A ≠ 0 paradox

Mathologer · 473K views · 3 years ago

32:32

Why don't they teach simple visual logarithms (and hyperbolic trig)?

Mathologer · 436K views · 3 years ago

26:45

Ramanujan's easiest hard infinity monster (Mathologer Masterclass)

Mathologer · 199K views · 3 years ago

27:29

Powell’s Pi Paradox: the genius 14th century Indian solution

Mathologer · 564K views · 3 years ago

33:25

The Korean king's magic square: a brilliant algorithm in a k-drama (plus geomagic squares)

Mathologer · 139K views · 3 years ago

9:14

What's hiding beneath? Animating a mathemagical gem

Mathologer · 154K views · 3 years ago

42:35

Fibonacci = Pythagoras: Help save a beautiful discovery from oblivion

Mathologer · 282K views · 3 years ago

38:33

Pythagoras twisted squares: Why did they not teach you any of this in school?

Mathologer · 490K views · 3 years ago

36:37

Secrets of the lost number walls

Mathologer · 183K views · 4 years ago

38:32

Why is calculus so ... EASY ?

Mathologer · 1.9M views · 4 years ago

26:40

Heron’s formula: What is the hidden meaning of 1 + 2 + 3 = 1 x 2 x 3 ?

Mathologer · 526K views · 4 years ago

19:06

Reinventing the magic log wheel: How was this missed for 400 years?

Mathologer · 381K views · 4 years ago

29:59

Tesla’s 3-6-9 and Vortex Math: Is this really the key to the universe?

Mathologer · 4.7M views · 4 years ago

22:49

How did Fibonacci beat the Solitaire army?

Mathologer · 178K views · 4 years ago

23:25

The 3-4-7 miracle. Why is this one not super famous?

Mathologer · 602K views · 4 years ago

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