Math & theory (other) Videos Recommended on Hacker News (6)
Math & theory (other) is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 6 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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2 mo on HNConrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers
1 mo on HNThe Great Debate @ARITH23: John Gustafson and William Kahan
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Mentioned in HN threads about math & theory (other), though never formally recommended:
The real meaning of MPH- The Original- TCHappenings · On Mathematical Maturity (1) Thomas Garrity