Taylor series | Chapter 11, Essence of calculus

When I first learned about Taylor series, I definitely didn’t appreciate how important they are. But time and time again they come up in math, physics, and many fields of…

But what is a Fourier series? From heat flow to drawing with circles | DE4

Here, we look at the math behind an animation like this, what’s known as a “complex Fourier series”. Each little vector is rotating at some constant integer frequency, and when…

Quaternions and 3d rotation, explained interactively

In a moment, I’ll point you to a separate website hosting a short sequence of what we’re calling “explorable videos”. It was done in collaboration with Ben Eater, who runs…

But what is a neural network? | Chapter 1, Deep learning

This is a three. It's sloppily written and rendered at an extremely low resolution of 28 by 28 pixels. But your brain has no trouble recognizing it as a three…

The essence of calculus

[INTRO MUSIC] Hey everyone, Grant here. This is the first video in a series on the essence of calculus. and I'll be publishing the following videos once per day for…

How secure is 256 bit security?

In the main video on cryptocurrencies, I made two references to situations where, in order to break a given piece of security, you would have to guess a specific string…

Visualizing the Riemann zeta function and analytic continuation

The Riemann zeta function. This is one of those objects in modern math that a lot of you might have heard of, but which can be really difficult to understand….

Solving the heat equation | DE3

We last left off studying the heat equation in the one-dimensional case of a rod the question is how the temperature distribution along such a rod will tend to change…