Sharing 52 videos with math history

Why are algorithms called algorithms?

Rion NakayaSeptember 6, 2019January 12, 2022

How To Make a Hexaflexagon: The Definitive Guide

Rion NakayaFebruary 22, 2018July 3, 2023

The ancient secrets revealed by deciphered cuneiform clay tablets

Rion NakayaFebruary 9, 2022October 15, 2023

A brief history of numerical systems

Rion NakayaApril 12, 2024

The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics, and Biology

Rion NakayaNovember 5, 2018April 20, 2021

A more perfect unit: The New Mole

Rion NakayaOctober 14, 2019January 23, 2024

Making miniature bowls with polymer clay cane patterns

Rion NakayaJanuary 24, 2024January 23, 2024

Why did eclipses used to be terrifying?

Rion NakayaOctober 16, 2023October 16, 2023

The Langlands Program, the biggest project in modern mathematics

Rion NakayaJune 17, 2022

Russian Multiplication, an astonishing way to multiply

Rion NakayaFebruary 20, 2020January 31, 2022

How could you tunnel through a mountain 2,500 years ago?

Rion NakayaMarch 9, 2023May 24, 2023

Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, the paradox at the heart of mathematics

Rion NakayaJanuary 3, 2022

Katherine Johnson, the girl who loved to count

Rion NakayaFebruary 24, 2020May 24, 2021

Mysteries of the world’s biggest dome

Rion NakayaDecember 3, 2018July 3, 2023

The mighty mathematics of the lever

Rion NakayaNovember 2, 2017September 6, 2023

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