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Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-21T20:21:43Z

I know of two good mathematics videos available online, namely:

Sphere inside out (part I and part II)
Moebius transformation revealed

Do you know of any other good math videos? Share.

Answer by Gerald Edgar for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-21T20:44:21Z

Dimensions

Möbius Transformations Revealed

Answer by Tom Leinster for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-21T20:50:30Z

77 instructional videos on category theory:

http://www.youtube.com/TheCatsters

I know you said "only one video per post", but I'm not posting 77 times...

Answer by javier for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-21T21:00:44Z

The "Touching Soap Films" series by Springer. about minimal surfaces. Some excerpts of the video are available here: http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/polthier/video/Touching/Scenes.html

Answer by Scott Morrison for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-21T21:35:26Z

Dror Bar-Natan has begin putting many of his lectures and talks online in video format. I'm not claiming that these are the 'best' online maths videos, but they're certainly interesting, and in particular he's come up with some neat tricks to associate publicly editable annotations with particular moments in the video.

Answer by Harrison Brown for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-21T21:50:26Z

You probably won't learn much actual math from it, but One Geometry is funnier and catchier than a Snoop Dogg parody about 3-manifolds has any right to be.

Answer by Thomas Riepe for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-21T21:55:45Z

This video is less about mathematics, but about a fascinating mathematician in two bodies who helped saving medieval unicorns - students liked it.

Answer by Harrison Brown for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-21T21:57:29Z

I believe this was mentioned elsewhere, but for completeness, here's Serre on writing.

Answer by Charles Siegel for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-21T21:58:39Z

Not lecture videos or anything, but the stuff from Oliver Labs is very good for just illustrating geometric stuff, like blowups and dual curves.

Answer by Any for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-22T00:27:14Z

'Not Knot' is also a nice vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGLPbSMxSUM

Answer by Scott Carter for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-22T01:09:42Z

My good friend Professor Elvis Zap has the "Calculus Rap," the "Quantum Gravity Topological Quantum Field Theory Blues," a vid on constructing "Boy's Surface," "Drawing the hypercube (yes he knows there is a line missing in part 1)," A few things on quandles, and a bunch of precalculus and calculus videos. In order to embarrass all involved, he posted the series "Dehn's Dilemma" that was recorded in Italy last summer.

Answer by bhwang for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-22T01:32:39Z

An excellent (and very lively) overview of basic one-variable calculus: Calculus I in 20 minutes: Part I, Part II.

Answer by Scott Carter for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-22T01:49:43Z

Elvis's youtube link

Answer by Andy Putman for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-22T02:18:56Z

Most of the talks at MSRI are videotaped and placed on the web here:

http://www.msri.org/communications/vmath/index_html

Answer by Konrad Voelkel for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-22T02:38:54Z

My personal all-time favorite is the Klein Four with their song "Simple Finite Subgroup (of order 2)"... it has lots of puns on topology in it, but I guess it doesn't teach anything.

Here's the link to the "simple finite subgroup" song

Answer by Andrew Stacey for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-22T07:53:10Z

On this page of sample animations using the k3d program there's a short animation of a "flower" blooming which is actually the first part of the sphere eversion.

Answer by Ferran V. for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-22T17:26:54Z

My personal favorite in Dimensions, that was mentioned before by Gerald Edgar. For a neat and clear exposition the Geom.of 3 manifolds, Poincaré conjecture, etc I recommend this lecture by C.McMullen. Or Das Schöne denken (hosted at the HIM in Bonn), for a good "glimpse in the world of the mathematician". Jos Leys' mathematical imagery contains some (interesting) videos and (a lot of beautiful) images.

Answer by Grétar Amazeen for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-22T22:10:46Z

The Newton institute in Cambridge tapes alot (all?) of it's lectures, and they can be found on the Institutes webpage. High quality for videos of lectures.

Answer by Mitch for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-23T00:42:23Z

The Institute for Advanced Study tapes some of its lectures. They tend to be very good.

Answer by vonjd for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-23T17:50:09Z

Among the best math videos can be found here: http://www.khanacademy.org/

(or the youtube-channel: http://www.youtube.com/khanacademy )

There is everything from counting to solving differential equations with Laplace transforms - nearly 1.000 videos altogether (and the guy is funny :-)

Answer by sanokun for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-24T06:39:35Z

This one is quite old but it was fun when I watched a few years ago. It's about Fermat's Last theorem.

http://www.archive.org/details/fermats_last_theorem

Answer by AgCl for Best online mathematics videos?

2009-10-27T23:00:55Z

There are Stephen Boyd's lecture videos on convex optimization:

http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee364a/videos.html

Answer by Jan Weidner for Best online mathematics videos?

2010-01-21T22:04:23Z

Lots of Lie Theory talks: http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/533438?mediaOffset=20&mediaMax=20&mediaOrder=asc&mediaSort=title#Media

Answer by Ryan Budney for Best online mathematics videos?

2010-01-21T23:55:57Z

This isn't purely a math video, it's an interview with Peter Woit and it is something of a summary of the main issues discussed on his blog and in his book. He talks about math vs. physics culture, especially the string theory community.

http://bigthink.com/peterwoit

Discussion here:

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=2670

Answer by Matt Noonan for Best online mathematics videos?

2010-01-22T00:19:00Z

Along the sphere eversion lines, there is also the energy-minimizing sphere eversion constructed by Rob Kusner. I think there is a video of it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6cgca4Mmcc, though it isn't labelled as such.

Rob also has a page at http://new.math.uiuc.edu/laterna/minimax/ with some history of the minimax eversion.

Answer by JoeG for Best online mathematics videos?

2010-01-22T01:31:56Z

This video about Andrew Wiles and the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is the only time I've seen the real excitement of mathematics presented accurately.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8269328330690408516#

Answer by Paolo for Best online mathematics videos?

2010-02-02T03:35:17Z

GRASP is a new lecture series at the University of Texas at Austin, which is aimed at bringing some of the fundamental concepts and big picture of the GRASP areas (Geometry, Representation, and Some Physics) to a wider audience (the intended target audience are beginning graduate students).

http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/benzvi/GRASP.html

Answer by Matt for Best online mathematics videos?

2010-02-26T01:33:07Z

MIT's OpenCourseWare has a few math courses up:

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/av/index.htm#Mathematics

Answer by Somnath Basu for Best online mathematics videos?

2010-02-26T04:46:30Z

I guess all of John Conway's lectures are great. Some of those can be found here : http://www.math.princeton.edu/facultypapers/Conway/

Answer by Kelly Davis for Best online mathematics videos?

2010-03-22T20:52:00Z

The series of videos from IAS School of Mathematics

Answer by Hans Stricker for Best online mathematics videos?

2010-04-18T20:40:33Z

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

Answer by Spinorbundle for Best online mathematics videos?

2010-04-18T20:52:25Z

Sir Michael Atiyah: Beauty in Mathematics (with subtitle: click me)

Answer by deoxygerbe for Best online mathematics videos?

2010-04-23T14:52:59Z

I'd like to think that my math art is awesome, and start here.

the mapping behind that video is $(x,y,z)\rightarrow(2*cos(z-y),2*sin(x-z),7*cos(y-x))$, and has a singular Jacobian -- the immediate ramification of which is that there is overlap in the video.

Answer by pi2000 for Best online mathematics videos?

2010-04-25T19:07:33Z

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics has lots of lectures in mathematics and physics.Some of them are difficult to find in other places(Complex Analysis,Abstract Algebra,Topology,Functional Analysis,Algebraic Geometry..).For the same topic(ex:Complex Analysis)there are lectures by 2 ore more lecturers so you can choose. http://www.ictp.it/ http://www.ictp.tv/diploma/index07-08.php?activityid=MTH http://www.ictp.tv/diploma/index08-09.php?activityid=MTH

Answer by Jan Weidner for Best online mathematics videos?

2010-05-05T10:27:36Z

A nice introduction to representation theory of compact lie groups, sl2(R) and other topics: http://www.math.utah.edu/vigre/minicourses/sl2/schedule.html

Answer by Anweshi for Best online mathematics videos?

2010-05-22T00:34:52Z

I am surprised that nobody mentioned the four-week workshop at Göttingen on arithmetic geometry in 2006 summer. Almost all of the videos are still available. Wonderful videos.

Answer by T.B. for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-01-22T06:10:46Z

Ken Ribet's introductory lecture on Serre's modularity conjecture. Useful and quite easy to follow and understand. http://fora.tv/2007/10/25/Kenneth_Ribet_Serre_s_Modularity_Conjecture

Answer by Valerio Talamanca for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-01-22T13:53:28Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdPrCWr9Ruk&feature=player_embedded#!

is a video made by a student in the school of arichitecture using pov-ray is about algebraic surfaces and how they "deform"

there are a few more animations at the following url

http://www.formulas.it/animazioni.php

they are part of on-going project about the visualization of mathematics (being developed by group of mathematicians and architects)

Answer by Daniel Pape for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-02-07T15:07:26Z

A few talks under the heading "What is ..." (",,," could be "Morse Theory", for example) given at the Freie Universität Berlin can be found here:

http://www.scivee.tv/user/5216

Answer by Gray Taylor for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-02-07T19:40:42Z

At the accessible end of the scale, Vi Hart's "doodling in math class" series and subsequent videos are a delight.

Answer by expmat for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-02-07T19:59:23Z

Videos recorded at IMPA:

http://video.impa.br/index.php?page=download

(some in English, some in Portuguese)

Answer by To be cont'd for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-02-15T23:57:46Z

I found the Graduate weekend repository of lectures at the Mathematics Department of Duke's University very entertaining. There is more in the other folders(G.Tian, Langlands, just to name a few )$\ldots$

Answer by Daniel Pape for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-02-19T15:36:27Z

Some talks on history by some leading mathematicians (mostly in French):

http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/FR/_LibraryThemas.asp?thema=541

Answer by Dave Novick for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-02-19T17:18:31Z

The University of New South Wales in Sydney has an eLearning channel on YouTube that contains lectures on a number of topics, including Algebraic Topology, Calculus, and Linear Algebra. Some computing and engineering topics are covered as well.

http://www.youtube.com/user/UNSWelearning#p/p

Answer by Justin Hilburn for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-02-20T06:07:53Z

I am surprised no one has mentioned that the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, and the Perimeter Institute often tape conferences.

Answer by Javier Álvarez for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-02-20T18:31:07Z

The complete introductory course on Algebraic Geometry by Miles Reid is very interesting (28 lectures following and extending his own undergraduate book on the subject), and his other set of lectures on Algebraic Surfaces.

Answer by Nikita Kalinin for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-03-08T21:08:44Z

NMU(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_University_of_Moscow) and MIAN lectures 2009-2010 (in Russian)

http://erb-files.narod.ru/

Answer by Vivek Shende for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-03-09T00:23:00Z

Hitler learns topology

Answer by Gerald Edgar for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-05-11T15:39:49Z

Searching for a video relating to another question, I found this: My Calculus Project

Answer by Austin Mohr for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-05-11T19:22:10Z

Timothy Gowers' "The Important of Mathematics" never fails to instill a sense of purpose in my work, even when I feel I'm doing "useless" mathematics.

Answer by Jesus Martinez Garcia for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-05-12T04:10:58Z

David Cox's lectures in toric varieties at MSRI

Something really good to end the evening with :)

Answer by Bob for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-05-12T04:17:20Z

Documentary about infinite and its implications in mathematics (BBC)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw-zNRNcF90

As usual, Gregory Chaitin on the history of logic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLPO-RTFU2o

Another one about logic and artificial intelligence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA3m9jgMp3U

Answer by Jesus Martinez Garcia for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-05-12T04:31:17Z

All the talks of Atiyah 80+

Answer by Peter Luthy for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-05-12T14:16:04Z

Richard Feynman gave the 1964 Messenger Lectures at Cornell University --- this is an endowed lecture series to which a number of famous scholars have been invited, including several physicists. His lectures were recorded, and Bill Gates bought the rights to them and has provided them to the public for free.

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html

The content is mostly designed for a general audience, so if you have never learned physics you will learn something. And if you have studied plenty of physics already, you will be pleased to see the master at work in his prime. I very much enjoyed watching it.

Answer by DamienC for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-05-12T22:06:19Z

The IHES also has a lot of on-line videos. In particular, I like very much the ones from the "Colloque Grothendieck".

Answer by Sharanjit Paddam for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-05-13T03:23:24Z

http://www.youtube.com/user/njwildberger

Excellent lectures by Norman Wildberger on topics including: Geometry, Algebraic Topology, Linear Algebra, Foundations of Mathematics, and history of Mathematics

Answer by Spice the Bird for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-07-20T04:51:17Z

Stoney Brook math videos:

http://www.math.sunysb.edu/Videos/dfest/

http://www.math.sunysb.edu/html/videos.shtml

Answer by Bill Kronholm for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-08-30T02:49:16Z

This is an old thread, but this video was recently posted to the Don Davis topology list, and I have to share it. It was created by Niles Johnson at UGA and it illustrates the Hopf fibration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKotMPGFJYk

Answer by euklid345 for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-08-30T12:34:02Z

The famous proof of the snake lemma in the 1980's movie It's my turn (can be found on utube).

Answer by Gil Kalai for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-09-25T19:15:38Z

Marcus du-Sautoy's lecture - Music of The Prime Numbers, is a very nice popular talk about prime numbers

Answer by Aleks Vlasev for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-11-01T06:56:23Z

I am not sure if this will qualify as math exactly, but it's amazing nonetheless. It is a film with Richard Feynman called "Feynman: Take the wold from another point of view". Here is part 1

Feynman: Take the wold from another point ov view - Part 1/4

Answer by Carl Najafi for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-11-20T06:30:05Z

At the time of writing, Rutgers experimental mathematics seminar has over 200 videos up on youtube. I wish more seminars would do this!

Answer by Strongart for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-12-23T06:29:05Z

I make some maths videos at home,Here is an English video:Visible Fibre Bundle

maybe that can help some begginners.

All my maths vedios at my blog here,thirty courses of communtative algebra and I prepare to make much more in the future,but as you seen,most of them are Chinese(中文）,because I can not say much English.

Answer by Leandro Vendramin for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-12-23T10:16:47Z

For a course on cluster algebras (by S. Fomin): http://qgm.au.dk/video/clusalg/

EDIT: Some graduate short-courses in FCEyN, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina:

J. Harris, Intersection Theory
R. Hartshorne, Introduction to Deformation Theory
D. Maclagan, Introduction to Tropical Algebraic Geometry
P. Beelen, Algebraic Geometric Codes

Here are the links to the videos of these 4 lectures.

Answer by Edmund Harriss for Best online mathematics videos?

2011-12-23T15:11:59Z

The amazing patterns that turn up in piece-wise isometries, like circles dancing in a rhomb:

http://vimeo.com/23772888

Answer by Carl Najafi for Best online mathematics videos?

2012-01-07T08:34:25Z

John Stillwell - ET Math: How different could it be? A nice talk given at the SETI Institute.

Answer by Mahmud for Best online mathematics videos?

2012-01-15T03:44:22Z

I am quite surprised to see Dan Freed's lecture of Hodge Conjecture has not been mentioned. (Although it is an old thread I believe this should be in here. Before there was a QuickTime video but I am grateful to find that it has been youtubed.)

Answer by Boris Bukh for Best online mathematics videos?

2012-01-28T22:06:20Z

As of today, the digitized tapes of CBMS Lectures on Probability Theory and Combinatorial by Michael Steele are online. I heartily recommend them — the style is informal, but educating: there are jokes, juggling lessons, speculations about the stock market, and all of these amidst beautiful mathematics.

Answer by Saikat Biswas for Best online mathematics videos?

2012-02-24T04:56:44Z

'Selmer Ranks of Elliptic Curves in Families of Quadratic Twists' by Karl Rubin

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=140581

Answer by joro for Best online mathematics videos?

2012-04-01T09:13:24Z

Two recent videotaped lectures by Doron Zeilberger.

The Joy of Dreaming to be Famous (Videotaped lecture), March 1,2012

The Rise and Fall of Astrology and the Future Fall of the so-called Infinity (Videotaped lecture) March 29, 2012

Answer by Justin Hilburn for Best online mathematics videos?

2012-07-28T21:20:45Z

They filmed the FRG Conference on Topology and Field Theories and put the lectures on youtube.

Answer by jfm314 for Best online mathematics videos?

2012-08-23T23:06:22Z

I have compiled a list (1500+) of math videos at http://pinterest.com/mathematicsprof/ . If anyone is aware of others, please send them to me.

Answer by David Corwin for Best online mathematics videos?

2013-01-06T23:12:01Z

The first Minerva Lecture by Jean-Pierre Serre at Princeton in Fall 2012 is online. There were two other lectures, and they did videotape them, but I can't find them online.