Mathologer: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Ramanujan: Making sense of 1+2+3+... = -1/12 and Co.", recommended as a careful, honest treatment of the -1/12 claim, often preferred over flashier videos.
- 3 HN recommenders 6 months 2016–2024explainerRecommended as a careful, honest treatment of the -1/12 claim, often preferred over flashier videos.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2020–2023explainerHN points to it as the in-depth rebuttal to the Numberphile video that explains why the 'proof' is wrong yet the result is meaningful.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2017–2023explainerHN recommends it as the clearest explanation of the patterns behind modular multiplication diagrams and times table art.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2019–2026explainerRecommended as a clear, visual explanation of continued fractions and why phi is hardest to approximate by fractions.
- 3 HN recommenders 2 months 2019–2022tutorialRecommended as an accessible explanation of how Rubik's cube solving relates to group theory.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2022–2023explainerHN points to it as a visual teaching resource for Fourier series, and as a reference when epicycles come up as analogies.
Questions
Which Mathologer video does Hacker News recommend most?
Ramanujan: Making sense of 1+2+3+... = -1/12 and Co.: recommended in 6 different months by 3 HN users between 2016 and 2024.
Is this every Mathologer video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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