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Pure mathematics Videos Recommended on Hacker News (97)
Pure mathematics is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 97 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 412 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Pure mathematics: algebra, group theory, number theory, topology, analysis, geometry, calculus, linear algebra, Euler, prime numbers, Riemann hypothesis, mathematical proofs, famous theorems.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Vectors | Chapter 1, Essence of linear algebra: “the most welcoming and informative introduction to the topic I've ever seen” — an HN commenter, 2018.
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2 mo on HNASTOUNDING: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... = -1/12
Numberphile
3 HN recommender · 2014–2023
2 mo on HNA simple trick to design your own solutions for Rubik's cubes
Mathologer
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
2 mo on HNEric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16
Lex Fridman
2 HN recommender · 2019–2019
2 mo on HNSloane's Gap - Numberphile
Numberphile
2 HN recommender · 2013–2019
2 mo on HNStrange Spheres in Higher Dimensions - Numberphile
Numberphile
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
2 mo on HNFeynman: Mathematicians versus Physicists
TehPhysicalist
2 HN recommender · 2014–2022
2 mo on HNPentagons Are Terrible at One Thing
CGP Grey
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNGregory Chaitin - Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?
Closer To Truth
1 HN recommend · 2020–2021
1 mo on HN5040 and other Anti-Prime Numbers - Numberphile
Numberphile
1 HN recommend · 2018–2024
1 mo on HNKlein Bottles - Numberphile
Numberphile
1 HN recommend · 2015–2022
1 mo on HNWhat is Euler's formula actually saying? | Ep. 4 Lockdown live math
3Blue1Brown
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
1 mo on HNThe Trinity Hall Prime - Numberphile
Numberphile
1 HN recommend · 2017–2020
1 mo on HNGroup theory, abstraction, and the 196,883-dimensional monster
3Blue1Brown
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNFive Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics - Andrej Bauer
Institute for Advanced Study
1 HN recommend · 2018–2026
1 mo on HNWhy is there no equation for the perimeter of an ellipse‽
Stand-up Maths
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
1 mo on HNCategory Theory, The essence of interface-based design - Erik Meijer
FooCafe
1 HN recommend · 2016–2022
1 mo on HNThe mathematician who cracked Wall Street | Jim Simons
TED
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HNFeynman: 'Greek' versus 'Babylonian' mathematics
TehPhysicalist
2 HN recommender · 2015–2023
1 mo on HNThe Uncracked Problem with 33 - Numberphile
Numberphile
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
0 mo on HNHitler Learns Topology
Benjatastic
0 HN recommender · 2018–2021
0 mo on HNGerald Jay Sussman: The Role of Programming (Dan Friedman's 60th Birthday)
William Byrd
0 HN recommender · 2022–2024
0 mo on HNGauge Theory and Inflation: Enlarging the Wu-Yang Dictionary
Tom Henderson
0 HN recommender · 2018–2021
0 mo on HNWhy Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible
Veritasium
0 HN recommender · 2024–2026
0 mo on HNOutside In
ssgelm
0 HN recommender · 2021–2025
0 mo on HNNon-euclidean virtual reality
Henry Segerman
0 HN recommender · 2019–2022