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

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

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

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    $\begingroup$ The sphere eversion video is available in one part on Google Videos: bit.ly/2Bmj3Z $\endgroup$
    – Harrison Brown
    Commented Oct 21, 2009 at 20:33
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    $\begingroup$ The sphere eversion video is great, and it seems like a really good way to explain topology and the idea of an invariant to a non-mathematician. On the other hand, I wouldn't expect someone to sit for 20 minutes just to find out what I care about. Does anyone have recommendations of shorter videos that achieve similar goals? $\endgroup$
    – Aaron Mazel-Gee
    Commented Oct 22, 2009 at 6:26
  • $\begingroup$ I protected this one as it seems a clear candidate for this and as it just got reactivated and thus I noticed it. If you see a problem with this please let me know, or bring it up on meta. $\endgroup$
    – user9072
    Commented Dec 7, 2013 at 12:58
  • $\begingroup$ You missed to specify for which group / level of knowledge you are searching the "best mathematics videos". This makes it hard to answer. If you have 10 to 18 years old, you find great video material here (in German, all Youtube videos are with subtitles, thus translatable to English): matheretter.de/mathe-videos $\endgroup$
    – Avatar
    Commented Oct 7, 2015 at 7:32
  • $\begingroup$ @HarrisonBrown: The link you give appears to be broken in the meantime. Probably you mean youtube.com/watch?v=R_w4HYXuo9M. $\endgroup$
    – Stefan Kohl ♦
    Commented Oct 25, 2015 at 18:06

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

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

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

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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

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All the talks of Atiyah 80+

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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

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    $\begingroup$ Watched a few Videos. But Wildberger is often trying to push his own views onto students, which he calls "Rational Trigonometry" (as in, Angles should be 0 to 1 instead of 0 to 2$\pi$. This makes the videos hard to watch, as they are not consistent with other books/lectures. $\endgroup$
    – Michael Kissner
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The famous proof of the snake lemma in the 1980's movie It's my turn (can be found on utube).

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

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

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSNsgj1OCLA

This video is far better than I expected. Show it to any discrete math course you teach. (With the possible exception of one of those courses that exist only to prepare students for a computer science course they take later.)

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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

http://vimeo.com/23772888

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

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So much maths video in http://nptel.ac.in/ National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning

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I know of some youtube channels with good content. The last two link are not strictly pure math, but still worth a look.

Institut Henri Poincaré: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrKGv5WY5ryaIXEmnxKVxOQ

princetonmathematics https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVKtRsfK1QPyHRP2QupyddQ

Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4R1IsRVKs_qlWKTm9pT82Q

StanfordCSTheory: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdZlxxfpEzQWwMvjVQ7gOJw

Simons Institute: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW1C2xOfXsIzPgjXyuhkw9g

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Discrete Integrable Systems at Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

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I feel that I have something new to add. I sometimes make mathematical videos, and I should make more. Here is one about a 3D diagram that I made of the happy family, in group theory. There are a lot of other videos on my channel, however, not pertaining to mathematics such as singing and art, but I hope that in the future I will make more mathematical content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IjnIcECoQ&t=11s

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It's not a single video (and sadly there hasn't been any new content in a year!), but Richard Borcherds's channel has some of the best math content I've seen. If I have to pick one I'll go with this video from his Rings series about Burnside rings and differential operator rings as an illustration of his style; for me, at least, it's a source of excellent insight into fields (cough) I know very little about.

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The video that I am adding here is a new upload in Youtube. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUl28Pjz89M

I have seen many videos on 21-card trick and also read many blogs on it. A very few of them has attempted to explain why this trick works. The ones give the proof, is pretty involved and requires some inclination towards the subject to understand this. But, this video has taken a totally different approach to explain the trick and why it works in a visual way. The approach is easy to understand for anyone. This is a great way of helping students get attracted towards Mathematics.

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