What makes a great math explanation? | SoME2 results
Winners and honorable mentions for the SoME2 contest
Playlist of all entries: • Summer of Math Exposit...
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*Winners*
Clear Crystal Conundrums, A Multifaceted Intro to Group Theory
explanaria.github.io/crystalg...
The Lore of Calculus
• This Is the Calculus T...
How Realistic CGI Works (And How To Do It Way Faster)
• How Ray Tracing (Moder...
Percolation: a Mathematical Phase Transition
• Percolation: a Mathema...
The Coolest Hat Puzzle
• The Coolest Hat Puzzle...
*Honorable mentions*
How to Take the Factorial of Any Number
• How to Take the Factor...
How are memories stored in neural networks?
• How are memories store...
The shapes of waves of ships and ducks
• The shapes of waves of...
Differentiable Programming from Scratch
thenumb.at/Autodiff/
Researchers Use Group Theory to Speed Up Algorithms - Introduction to Groups
• Researchers Use Group ...
Pleasing Panoramas and Matrix Multiplication
xperimex.com/blog/panorama-hom...
A Tale of Tangent Spheres
• A Tale of Tangent Spheres
Why there are no perfect maps (and why we eat pizza the way we do)
• Why there are no perfe...
What Lies Between a Function and Its Derivative?
• What Lies Between a Fu...
1 Billion is Tiny in an Alternate Universe: Introduction to p-adic Numbers
• 1 Billion is Tiny in a...
The Mathematical Problem with Music, and How to Solve It
• The Mathematical Probl...
A Curious Track, or What Bikes Are Hiding From Us
• A Curious Track, or Wh...
An Inverse Turing Test
calmcode.io/blog/inverse-turi...
What A General Diagonal Argument Looks Like (Category Theory)
• What A General Diagona...
Why the Circle encloses the Largest Area | Explained using Hill Climbing
• Why the Circle enclose...
The Amazing Math behind Colors!
• The Amazing Math behin...
An Interactive Guide for Bézier Curves
www.summbit.com/blog/bezier-c...
Does Every Game Have a Winner
almostsurelymath.blog/2022/07...
A Finite Game of Infinite Rounds
• A Finite Game of Infin...
Numberphile's Square-Sum Problem was solved!
• Numberphile's Square-S...
Timestamps:
0:00 - The rising tide
2:08 - Choosing winners
2:54 - Motivation (macro)
8:09 - Motivation (micro)
10:55 - Clarity
12:57 - Novelty
14:26 - Memorability
15:07 - Winners
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**Winners** Clear Crystal Conundrums, A Multifaceted Intro to Group Theory explanaria.github.io/crystalgroups/ The Lore of Calculus kzhead.info/sun/aLFrgruse2Z7rYE/bejne.html How Realistic CGI Works (And How To Do It Way Faster) kzhead.info/sun/mteTma6dmH-FZ3A/bejne.html Percolation: a Mathematical Phase Transition kzhead.info/sun/lJFwZpuPpZSXdok/bejne.html The Coolest Hat Puzzle kzhead.info/sun/acyPgLKHhZ9tq68/bejne.html **Honorable mentions** How to Take the Factorial of Any Number kzhead.info/sun/qcOBlcWdjIeFoZs/bejne.html How are memories stored in neural networks? kzhead.info/sun/o81_ZqhueoOuiK8/bejne.html The shapes of waves of ships and ducks kzhead.info/sun/hKdsc856kX5-i6s/bejne.html Differentiable Programming from Scratch thenumb.at/Autodiff/ Researchers Use Group Theory to Speed Up Algorithms - Introduction to Groups kzhead.info/sun/ftmfo7BqjZl7f6c/bejne.html Pleasing Panoramas and Matrix Multiplication xperimex.com/blog/panorama-homography/ A Tale of Tangent Spheres kzhead.info/sun/rbaYmNSZoGWOnpE/bejne.html Why there are no perfect maps (and why we eat pizza the way we do) kzhead.info/sun/e8l7gJeFfl-Ne58/bejne.html What Lies Between a Function and Its Derivative? kzhead.info/sun/ZciwgbmNe6ZrfKs/bejne.html 1 Billion is Tiny in an Alternate Universe: Introduction to p-adic Numbers kzhead.info/sun/ZsuyeK97e6NnjHk/bejne.html The Mathematical Problem with Music, and How to Solve It kzhead.info/sun/oa9rmr2jammIn58/bejne.html A Curious Track, or What Bikes Are Hiding From Us kzhead.info/sun/n5ubib1qjGeil3A/bejne.html An Inverse Turing Test calmcode.io/blog/inverse-turing-test.html What A General Diagonal Argument Looks Like (Category Theory) kzhead.info/sun/l9uHqLqomXeMlps/bejne.html Why the Circle encloses the Largest Area | Explained using Hill Climbing kzhead.info/sun/dqp7kZadsYaHfYk/bejne.html The Amazing Math behind Colors! kzhead.info/sun/mtKOidOJaKKtmKs/bejne.html An Interactive Guide for Bézier Curves www.summbit.com/blog/bezier-curve-guide/ Does Every Game Have a Winner almostsurelymath.blog/2022/07/28/does-every-game-have-a-winner/ A Finite Game of Infinite Rounds kzhead.info/sun/f7l8prerr2hjeI0/bejne.html Numberphile's Square-Sum Problem was solved! kzhead.info/sun/YNqxh5hqiWZtlZs/bejne.html There were so many excellent ones that even a selection of 25 feels like an arbitrary and cruel cut-off. I highly encourage you to take a look at all the other entries as well, see the video description.
The lore behind calculus and how to take a factorial were really good
wow i did not expect you to actually react to my comment by changing the description and this comment in less than 8 hours!
@i〈3SF I'm 29 now and feel the same. Websites and companies weren't begging for our data. Web sites had pages and pages of data with no/limited ads. No insane algo's keeping us trapped in an echo chamber. The internet feels like a hallowed out corporate business compared to what it used to be
You said choosing winners from the top 25 was comparing apples to oranges times 25. Wouldn't it be 25!/5! more difficult?
math and science is epic cause bill nye
As a 60 year old life-long mathematics enthusiast, the vast number of superb math videos on KZhead is truly one of my greatest joys.
I feel like this is what KZhead is really meant for.
Did you pursue a career of Maths?
@Don't Read My Profile Photo Don't like the loop you made, neither getting a like or two.
@Don't Read My Profile Photo You dissapointed me, I expected a message, a phrase or an easter egg.
@@drk5orp-655 that's a bot, they're everywhere in youtube and other websites and they're just made to entice traffic to certain channels and videos
Kudos to you for helping the creators get inspired, Grant!
Inspiring great content instead of just making great content yourself is the ultimate form of community and influencing.
@Don't Read My Profile Photo okay I wont
I am losing my MIND. I cannot find the video mentioned at 11:18 AT ALL NI MATTER WHERE I LOOK. Can someone link me their channel PLEASE
@@noneofyourbusiness4133 Bro it's not a video on KZhead and it's the first thing linked in the description under winners. Hope it helps.
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It's been so cool seeing smaller math channels getting wider attention recently. This SoME2 stuff is sweet.
I am losing my MIND. I cannot find the video mentioned at 11:18 AT ALL NI MATTER WHERE I LOOK. Can someone link me their channel PLEASE
@@noneofyourbusiness4133I'm pretty sure its a presentation, not a youtube video
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i really like phosphophillit
Anime profile picture guy saying "cool" and "sweet" 😂😂
The increase of math videos has been incredible but even more important is the high quality of the content and the animations, Manim is really an awesome tool we need to thank you for. You really taught a man, or even better the KZhead community, how to fish.
This
*taught a man
@@zmaj12321 You can edit comments. Click on the 3 dots, then "edit" Edit: Oops! I thought you and OP were the same person! I guess your profile pictures and names are too vaguely similar.. Sorry!
@@nikkiofthevalley LMAO
@@nikkiofthevalley LMFAO 😂😂👍
Grant will be remembered in the history of the internet for revolutionising and building the math community as it is becoming now. I am going to cry
He is one of the reasons why I decided NOT to go into university. Why risk having archaic lectures that suck when I could watch a refined and rated video instead. This sounds negative but I mean it in a way where current educational videos are serious competition that will benefit both in the long run.
@@greenyxd7298 The purpose of college was never to imbue its students with knowledge. It is the assurance that a graduate has knowledge. It makes the risk a company takes lower. In most countries (and even more so today), you could learn everything a college would teach from publicly available material, but you can only obtain that paper, that confirmation, by paying a university. Doesn’t make it any less dumb of a system, especially today, but personally, I will play the game for now, and hopefully I win something nice for myself.
@@caseycho7015 Well-phrased.
He is always in my heart!
@@greenyxd7298 I think college has made me work harder than I otherwise would have because you have regular deadlines and assignments. I feel like I barely learned anything concrete in college that is useful, but I feel like it made me a much better problem solver, since I had to spend so much time on solving hard problems on a deadline. If you're self motivated it's not really that useful though. Only really good for the social connections and for proving to employers that you could make it through
Personally, I think one of the best sections of SOME a whole is the peer review. When Grant metioned any one of these entries, viewers would come up something like, 'I voted this once!'. And that is a huge feel of achivement to gather the whole community together.
I am losing my MIND. I cannot find the video mentioned at 11:18 AT ALL NI MATTER WHERE I LOOK. Can someone link me their channel PLEASE
@@noneofyourbusiness4133 It isnt a video, click the github link in the description of the video under the winners category
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True! I didn't anticipate this when we did SoME1, but it seems like the peer review turns out to really be the heart of the event.
SoMe2 was great not just because it inspiered creators, but it also gave them a promotion: all of them had the same tags and "SoME2 " in titles (Also a shared initial viewers as it turns out). It resulted in that after me (And probably not me alone) watched one of them, youtube started recomending all of them to me.
I am losing my MIND. I cannot find the video mentioned at 11:18 AT ALL NI MATTER WHERE I LOOK. Can someone link me their channel PLEASE I searched the video name and got fucki BFF real house wives BS, I searched the Ch annnel name and got nothing
@@noneofyourbusiness4133 If you are talking about crystals with group theory it isn't a video it is an article. Link is the first of winners in the description.
In spite of how humble you tend to be about this, I think you are leading the charge in the most important advancement of math and science education. After recently returning to school for my masters, I am convinced that the biggest hurdle in learning is not the supposed difficulty of a subject but rather the quality of the explanation. Everything you've done with this channel has dramatically increased the quality and accessibility of educational resources and should ultimately lead to a deeper and more widespread understanding of math and science. Thank you.
what po shen loh is doing is pretty great too
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@mike yepyep quality of explanation is the hurdle. that feels very true! i love the idea of the future where we are headed a lot!
Thanks so much for organizing and inspiring so many amazing entires, it has been a pleasure watching so much cool math!
Thank you for your videos Dr. Bazett! You helped me big time 👍
I am losing my MIND. I cannot find the video mentioned at 11:18 AT ALL NI MATTER WHERE I LOOK. Can someone link me their channel PLEASE
@@noneofyourbusiness4133 It is probably a non-video entry, grant made a some2 playlist that mentions all non video entries in the description, you should proabably look into that
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Your videos are amazing! You have a great talent for teaching
Wonderful! A quick note to those who didn't 'win' the contest: I actually watched most of the SoME2 entries this last month, and the videos that I most enjoyed and provided the most value to me in my field (physics and engineering) didn't get a mention in this video. Not that I disagree with the winner list - they are all fantastic! I just wanted to give a shoutout to the non-winners and encourage creators to keep creating. I'm a University professor and I've shared many of the SoME2 entries with my students and colleagues. So whether or not a video made the 3b1b list, it is likely that someone out there was enlightened and inspired by it! Also, I encourage everyone to leave appreciative and supportive comments on the videos you enjoy. Especially for younger channels, the act of a stranger on the internet showing appreciation is incredibly motivating. Cheers to Grant and this channel for accelerating the rise of top-notch educational content on KZhead!
Grant, the maths community owes you a debt of gratitude, you've definitely boosted understanding and love of the subject.
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I wouldn't have thought to make a math channel without you!! I learned it is surprisingly hard to keep the pedagogy in a way to motivate a reason to be excited for an idea and there were many brilliant submissions that did just that!! I definitely have a long way to go, and although I didn't make the winning list, I am glad I made the top 100!!
Hey Grant! You might not see this but I wanted to let you know about the impact your videos have had on my life. Inspired from the beauty and depth of math and science, I’ve decided to pursue Masters in Physics (which I wanted to do since a kid) and watching your videos have cemented the fact that I absolutely love physics and mathematics. A simple “Upload to KZhead” you’ve done multiple times has changed my life forever, for good, and many others too I hope. Keep up the good work. The content you produce is REALLY inspiring.
Hi, I'd like to say that I'm in the beginning of a similar story! 3b1b's videos made me realize how cool, joyful and interesting math really is. It showed me math as the most important tool in science. I'm now thinking about changing my dream university from biochemistry to math&physics and I feel that this time it's the right thing to do. I'm grateful for these free educational resources available to all ❤️
Same story!!! I started watching 3b1b 2 years ago, I didn't even know what trigonometry was, and now I'm reading a book about differential topology... Thanks Grant.
Hi Amogh, I'm touched to hear the videos could have had that kind of impact. Congrats on finding your passion, and best of luck with the Masters!
One of the most beautiful aspects of Mathematics is when people communicate it to others. This has been inspiring in so many way, and it has been a pleasure to participate! It is a honour to get the mention! Thank you!!
I am losing my MIND. I cannot find the video mentioned at 11:18 AT ALL NI MATTER WHERE I LOOK. Can someone link me their channel PLEASE
@@noneofyourbusiness4133 That is not a video but a blog post called 'Clear Crystal Conundrums, A Multifaceted Intro to Group Theory'
Can't be bitter about not winning -- the winners submitted great videos! I've wanted to make videos for years and this challenge gave me the kick up the backside to finally make it happen, as well as jump-starting my channel from nothing. Thank you!
just clicked on your channel then on the How to Add video your visuals and clarity look great (i haven't watched just browsing around) thank you for making stuff!
Yes I have. They have been great.
They were beautiful..
I think you are one of the most important people for math communication to have ever lived. First, with your channel, where many first found the beauty of math. Then with open-sourcing Manim, and now with two editions of SoME (and hopefully more to come), expanding the variety and quality of math content online with channels which otherwise wouldn't exist. Thank you, SoME community; but most importantly, thank you, Grant.
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Great job on another successful Summer of Math Exposition! Like I mentioned to you two months ago, last year's initiative gave me the push I needed to formulate what would eventually become an hour long talk on the place of science in video game speedrunning and the place of speedrunning as an introduction to science. I gave this talk in Germany this summer and I will be doing it again in other events in the future. You are an inspiration for anyone who wishes to educate on KZhead!
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My recommendations have been filled with math videos, many with only hundreds of views. Thank you so much for running this contest.
learning becomes so much more fun when things are taught for learning and not for completing the syllabus. Thanks for this movement. I slept through my group theory class but enjoyed so much going through the video
Few years ago I stumbled upon this channel while was in search of some algebraic explanations. Now I'm happily watching almost every math video that KZhead proposes to me because the math made me even more curious! Unfortunatelly, I'm still not understand even the half of it, but one day I will :D
I am losing my MIND. I cannot find the video mentioned at 11:18 AT ALL NI MATTER WHERE I LOOK. Can someone link me their channel PLEASE
@@noneofyourbusiness4133 It's not a video. It's a webpage linked in the description.
I doubt that one day you will understand all. Its about learning the skill to analyse and solve a problem. No human can understand everything.
Polylog is one of my favourite maths channels now! Such a clean style of animation and great video ideas. And I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s found a new channel they now adore. Thankyou
Polypog? I couldn't find the channel
@@ziquaftynny9285 me neither :D
I think the Rubik’s Cube video was well made and wasn't even part of either SoME!
@@maadneet yesss I know right it’s good it got the acknowledgment it deserved. And yes lol I edited it
@@109studios4 Thanks a lot :)
This has been so great! I've had quite a few SoME videos recommended this past month, and Ive learned lots of great things from them. Thank you so much for putting this event on!
I've seen quite a few of them; it was really delightful to see so much new maths content out there.
Grant this was so good! I'm completely floored by this comp. Some shout-outs: I saw one guy - I can't remember his name - present his own original yet-to-be-published measure which could distinguish between open and closed sets, which was nuts; and I want to mention Arithknot and his hyperbola video specifically for being singularly clear among all the videos I saw.
As a 72 year old who has been pursuing math knowledge after majoring in French and psychology (and then a Master's degree in Computer Science) the Internet and folks like 3Blue1Brown have been invaluable in my learning a whole lot more about maths than I ever would have otherwise. Bravo, signore! 😁
CQFD ! (You need to know French and math to get this one ;) )
@@louisdurand4567 Ce qu'il fallait démontrer. Entendu, mon vieux! Vivent les mathématiques! 😇
I've watched a bunch of the SOME2 videos, they are all soooooo goooood
I unfortunately haven't noticed more math videos in recs particularly recently. I mean, over the past two years or so I do feel like it very occasionally will give me a cool math video from a tiny channel with few videos -- but nothing recently. And now, you've just listed a ton of math videos with incredibly interesting hooks for each. I want to watch nearly every one of them!
I suddenly received an influx of amazing math videos coming from small creators a while ago, but now my recommendations are terrible.
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Many thanks to you and to everyone who participated, the inspiration I got from watching these videos is immeasurable, I hope you can do this next year, this is the new Christmas.
I completely forgot that this was going on and didn’t realize the reason I saw so many new math videos recently was because of this lol. I just thought the algorithm became more tuned to math videos since I’ve been watching a good amount of them lately.
I feel like we haven't stressed enough how impactful SoME is. Like, it's one of the most important events in the youtube math community. Small channels with amazing content are getting the attention they deserve. Plus, so many people are very inspiring and are definitely a snowball in the future of math...
I remember watching the p-adic numbers video and the turing test post, I'm honestly amazed by all of the entries that I came across with. Besides all of the amazing work, I think that this video has some really good advice for all of us who want to create educational content. Most of this lessons don't just apply to math! It's time to watch all of the content published out there. You all did an amazing job :D
Kudos to all SOME creators!!❤ I am having great fun and joy watching and learning them!! Thank you all of you❤❤❤
As a long time follower for math and science channels on KZhead, i have to say that the math educational videos landscape totally changed after your amazing channel and efforts Grant! .. i witnessed 3blue1brown from its very beginning and how it revolutionized the whole field. I truly thank you for being the magnificent educator you are!
Thank you so much Grant, I've seen most of these in my feed and watched and enjoyed many of them!
It's so insane to ponder the fact that my giant love for math would probably never exist (or at least take a long time to show up) if it wasn't for Grant. I'm so incredibly thankful, but at the same time I'm very sad thinking about all the people that will not have the opportunity to be a part of this.
Great to hear you found that love, thought I'm guessing there were a couple teachers you had along the way that primed you for it :)
@@3blue1brown Yes, of course, and I'm greatful for them, but I'm pretty sure you are a decising factor for most people on discovering or encountering their math selves. Just for that only I hope that you can be one of the great people I talk to my kids about. Thank you.
Oh definitely! And the videos that were made were just so dang good and so dang... unique in their very specific ways of tackling understanding and intuition. I have had a very satisfying few weeks on KZhead, and it's thanks to this amazing initiative you've started. Kudos!
Side note it delights me that I've already seen every one of the videos you mentioned, some repeatedly!
Hell yeah, the results are out! Looking forward to seeing what everyone got, and congratulations to the winners!
What a cool project! Such amazing work in all those entries. As you went through this video it was difficult to not open the videos you talked about right away and actually watch this to the end first :D
I thoroughly enjoyed so many math videos, thanks to you and everyone else in the community. It truly is a wonderful sight how people can come together to share their knowledge in such a way.
I really enjoyed „How to Take The Factorial of Any Number“, I didn’t realise that was for SoME
Ditto ! It was one of the best Math videos I've ever seen. I watched it at least three times, and plan to watch more...
@@enbyarchmage It was sad to see he only had two videos, but I’m hoping for more content someday!
Congrats to all the winners, and thanks for putting this on! If this hadn't happened again, I wouldn't have met my wonderful collaborator who helped me make the best video on my channel (imo).
I enjoy summer of math so much because I go through each of the videos and take notes as I watch them step by step. It's so satisfying to be able to understand topics in a efficient manner even if it take an hour or two.
It's one o'clock in the morning here but I just have to watch this before going to sleep. Still remember how some of the videos from the last soMe inspired me (especially the one with unlock pattern for phone). And yes, recently I ran into a bunch of quality maths video with high quality, which is just awesome! Thank you and all participants a lot for making this happen, twice!
Of late, I saw a huge increase in the math videos in my feed and all thanks to you and the creators who participated in it. Things I have never thought about or didn't know existed were in front of me and explained very well. You simply peaked my interest in maths to a next level
I would like to thank every single one of the participants in this exercise. I've enjoyed so many well thought out and brilliantly crafted videos many of them on subjects I've not even given much consideration before. This was a great effort, thanks again.
Thank you for the superb content, kudos to all the winners and all entries!
Making mathematics easier to learn is such a worthy and honorable goal. Thank you very much for all your hard work and for inspiring others.
I love this event and how it brings the community together
Thanks for running again, it's an incredible idea and I'll have to give the entries a look again this year.
Thanks you so much for hosting these Grant, the amount of genuinely inspiring and informative maths content that's been on the platform as a direct consequence of your actions is insane! I remember a while ago I was worried I was "becoming ignorant" since I felt I'd not learnt much in a few months. I was worried I'd lost my drive or ability to learn new things. However, recently I've learnt so much from the SoME2 videos its like I've entered a completely new phase in my understanding of mathematics! Many of the videos have provided crucial visual / intuitive explanations for the maths I'm currently using in my university courses, and the rest have been inspiring peeks into the maths I've not (yet) come into contact with! Bar specifics, I'm sure I'm not alone in the general positive impact your videos and these competitions have had on my learning (and hence my life as a whole). So once again: thank you so much! Edit: thank you to James as well!
I can’t say anything before having watched the video, but one thing I can truly do since second 0 is that I just felt happines inside me when finding out that Grant has uploaded a new video 25 mins ago 😊
3B1B, you have inspired a lot of people to make high quality math content and even provided them with a great visualization library. Thanks for your work! I think your calm presentation style and the uncompromising graphics are essential for a viewer to concentrate and effectively engage with a topic.
Woooooooow I've watched so many of these SoME videos but I haven't seen, like, half of the videos that you listed here! I've got to check them out. It's really awesome how you and Leios put this whole thing together. It's really exposed me to so many really cool ideas.
I think this whole idea is great! I've been a big fan of the channel for a long time and it's amazing to see so many other math channels suddenly blow up, I didn't realize it was because of this competition though. I absolutely love what you've been doing for the math youtube community!
These have all been so fun Thankyou!
Thanks for organizing this event again! It was a lot of fun to participate, and I never would have made a video without it!
I love this, the collaboration and all of the math shared all over the internet! Looking forward to the next edition, it's getting better and better each year.
I did start seeing more math in my recommended around the time this happened! I had no idea this was going on, thanks for shedding some light on it. what a great way to promote small channels. 😊
It’s been an honor to compete this year! I’d like to thank Grant for creating such an amazing opportunity!🎉
SoME2 has been one of my favorite things this year. It brought so much math content that anyone can view. Truly incredible.
Grant, thank you for your work. You’ve taken your own abilities and passion and unleashed something so much bigger. It’s inspiring!
This video is full of ideas that seem really important that I don't even know where to start. I love hearing from education people about their process of educating, not just the content they usually cover.
I think it's a testament to this effort that I got recommended some _bad_ math videos. There has to be quite a large number of videos to begin with for this to happen, and it requires creators taking chances and "putting themselves out there". It's only when you start seeing bad ones that you know people are really encouraged to create!
A few years ago I was just watching you, numberphile, and mathologer. Thanks to SoME I now watch dozens!
Wow ! Just wow !!! It is so fantastic and fascinating to see how many ingenious minds are out there willing to spend their time to share their knowledge in the most fun and creative ways with the rest of us! I can't express my gratitude enough towards all these people and 3Blue1Brown. Their spirit is an essential part of what defines humanity in my eyes. Thank you all!
thank you very much for hosting the event, please continue it next year as well
The reason is apparent why you are one of the most loved and respected learning channel ..
Please let the community donate towards the prize fund next time. I think this is the start of something major, I can't imagine the time and research that went into some of these and wonder what quality and topics we could get if there were a 5 - 10k+ prize.
I noticed a nice uptick in math videos and subscribed to a few new channels myself! You're a legend Grant! Congrats on the recent recognition
I love all of this so much - from you making your own wonderful videos, to realizing that doesn't scale, and so trying to turn math exposition into a "movement" - and actually succeeding! You must be tickled pink - well-done!
Congratulations to all the winners. I couldn't make a video this year or last year, but hopefully I could participate in SoME-3. Third time's the charm!
14:14 I love math, though I am not a mathematician. I also am a biker, and since high school I was thinking about this exact same thing! Finally, some content out there that would satisfy my curiosity years ago!
It was absolutely mindblowing! Please do something similar next year too! It really motivates me as a math student, especially when I suffer through classes and wonder why I'm doing this.
Fantastic Job. James and Grant, Thank you very much for your substantial Hard work in making this contest possible!!!
I found a small channel that i really like now. They explained color theory in a way that really helped me understand it. I wasn't even looking for it at all.
Yes, they've been amazing and it's made me enjoy maths so much more
It's amazing how I always watch your channel and I also saw several of these videos without knowing about this competition!
I saw tons of random SoME2 videos. And I have enjoyed the very vast majority of them. I think the hashtags worked. Very cool, congrats :)
aw man I was rooting for another roof, but these ones are great and I am shocked at how many of them I've already seen!
I am so thankful for descovering this channel
Kudos to everyone who submitted something for SoME2!! Aside from being a great way to boost math videos in the yt algorithm, I think the community that sprouted around SoME has been really positive and engaged. I for one especially love the vibe of a small creator responding to every comment on their video; it incentivizes me to leave more feedback and ask more detailed questions.
glad to see A Well-Reated Dog's video was a winner! It was a really fun watch, and I enjoyed being able to take some time to learn about mathematics history since I don't really look into it much. thanks for hosting this. I love the content that comes from people participating in your SOME events and seeing so many different video styles and fields of math discussed within them. if you host this again hopefully i'll have enough mathematical experience to give a shot at creating a video! great job to everyone who participated!
Participating in this contest was a lot of fun! I'll be working hard on improving my explanation skills so that next year I at least appear in the playlist :)
Thanks so much for all these channels, I can’t believe that polylog is connected to everything over here too!
ah, that explains all the newer channels ive found recently. fantastic, ive been enjoying the new content. math is so beautiful.
By far the best online competition on youtube. So good to see how out of nowhere my feed got populated with great math content!!
One of the best things I've experienced during this contest was the community gathered on the discord server. It was incredible to be able to talk to so many talented math people and be excited about all stages of SoME with them. Thank you Grant and Leios for encouraging people to make more math explainers and for the whole SoME experience. P.S. I got to Top 100, aiming for honorable mention next year :D
It would be cool to see summer of physics or art or whatever to expand this collective effort to make learning fun and accessible!
This is always such an enriching experience and I am really looking forward to watching and going through most of the entries . A huge thanks to Grant for promoting and helping share this great education content on KZhead.
These some2 videos helped me really much to overcome the psychological hell i had to encounter the past few weeks. Big thanks to You and to all the some2 participants! You guys rock!
Never did I ever expect to see Kronii’s face on this channel
While it is fun to get some nice recommendations I'd like to stress how many good entries were actually submitted, and how many good entries that could not make it into this video. In fact, I've seen some really nice entries this time around that didn't make it to the top 100. And at least one of them was so good that I was genuinely shocked to learn it didn't make it to the manual review stage (but I won't say which one I'm thinking of, so you'll have to look for it yourself in the SoME2 playlist :)). And I agree with Grant that I found the non-video entries this time around of generally quite high quality, so they should definitely not be ignored.
thank you! you know what that last SOME1 had one post too which i thought was really great the one with the glass that breaks light to shape a picture of a cat. man i haven't even looked at one of the entries this year and this comment section just makes want to go back to last year stuff and just try to see from there how many of the peoples' projects led to more project thank you again have a nice day!
Thank you for organizing such a thing! You really are a wonderful person who loves to share curiosity and knowledge.
I don't know what to say, yes I noticed the sudden upload of math videos, many of them had a really good quality. I subscribed to some of them thinking that they were new channels, sadly it seems like they're not keeping making videos, however It was a totally delight for me to appreciate the work these contestants made, I've learned a lot and really enjoyed them. But at some point I was kinda curious about why did some people decided to start their new math channels almost at the same time, then I just forgot about that. And now that I've seen this video I'm really grateful for you to being the responsable for all this thing to happen. when you said that you made a list of all the videos selected I died of happiness.
I would love to make an in-depth video explaining how R*-trees work (being introduced from B-trees and R-trees first) but unfortunately barely found any time. If I ever get some time in my hands and nobody's done it by then, I'll make sure to utilize it in such a way
Seeing Kronii on the data, while funny, we kinda know it just makes sense
This is absolutely cool! Glad to see a wide community contributing many interesting contents there!
Congrats to the winners! There were so many more interesting entries this year