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Math & theory (other) Videos Recommended on Hacker News (8)
Math & theory (other) is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 8 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2011 and 2025 — 16 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Other mathematical and theoretical computer science topics: math education, mathematical modeling, miscellaneous lectures.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Pythagoras' theorem (a) | Math History | NJ Wildberger: “Highly recommend his History of Mathematics lectures on YouTube” — an HN commenter, 2023.
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6 mo on HNPythagoras' theorem (a) | Math History | NJ Wildberger
Insights into Mathematics
6 HN recommender · 2014–2024
4 mo on HNControl Bootcamp: Overview
Steve Brunton
4 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNLecture 1 | Convex Optimization I (Stanford)
Stanford
2 HN recommender · 2011–2022
2 mo on HNConrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers
TED
2 HN recommender · 2012–2020
1 mo on HNWhy do people keep getting this wrong‽
Stand-up Maths
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
1 mo on HNThe Great Debate @ARITH23: John Gustafson and William Kahan
dancefan
1 HN recommend · 2017–2023
0 mo on HNThe real meaning of MPH- The Original- TCHappenings
Travis Chambers
0 HN recommender · 2012–2021
0 mo on HNOn Mathematical Maturity (1) Thomas Garrity
IAS | PCMI Park City Mathematics Institute
0 HN recommender · 2023–2025