25 Math explainers you may enjoy | SoME3 results

Thank you to Jane Street, both for funding the event, and providing eager and able guest judges to the final stages of the process.

Organization and logistics were handled by James Schloss, aka @LeiosLabs

Web development by Frédéric Crozatier

0:00 - The event
1:34 - Pixel Art Anti-aliasing
2:26 - The Enola Gay
3:40 - Pitch shifter
4:14 - Cayley Graphs
4:51 - Longest Increasing Subsequence
5:49 - Matrix Arcade
6:37 - Watching Neural Networks Learn
7:18 - Functions are vectors
7:38 - The art of linear programming
8:13 - Backburner problems
9:24 - Affording a planet
9:56 - When can’t math be generalized
10:49 - Rotation + Translation = Rotation
11:33 - Rethinking the real line
12:16 - Egyptian volumes
13:05 - A circular motion quirk
13:40 - Minimal surfaces
14:47 - Computing logs
15:19 - Mediants
16:17 - The shadow game
16:43 - Chasing Fixed Points
17:24 - Representing numbers
18:11 - Mirror ball
18:34 - String art
19:36 - Infinity
20:52 - Thanks

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[bluebrown]

Winners (in no particular order)

Honorable mentions (also in no particular order)

[DrTrefor]

So grateful to have been chosen as a winner - thank you 3b1b and everyone! Congrats to the other winners and honorable mentions, and everyone else who contributed, so much cool content. It’s pretty awesome how amazing the YouTube math community is these days, I feel the community does so much for growing appreciation and interest for math.

[gaimbit]

This is what a real "influencer" looks like!

Creating a huge influx of math content for the public and motivating a large collection of individuals to attempt the learning and exploration necessary to submit a video. So grateful for 3b1b and this competition for pushing me outside my comfort zone!

[tibees]

Thank you Grant and team for helping these videos come into the world! Excited to watch some of them

[ruferd]

I imagine that SoME will almost single handedly increase the amount of undergrads becoming math majors. The effect of making math much more accessible and showing that math isnt just "solve for x" or "plug in the formula" is immeasurable.

[suomeaboo]

SoME is such a great yearly event. It's always fun to be introduced to new math channels that got their start here, and all the high quality videos they make. Surely some of them have already grown significantly.

[jkzero]

I am honored to be selected and be part of a 3b1b video. Thanks so much to Grant and team for such a great event, and to all the reviewers and contributors to this event, we are all together in this joy of flooding the internet with math content. Grant and SoME has been the catalyst for so many of us, new creators, to be exposed to a huge audience

[enpeacemusic]

Im so happy to be alive in the time where it is so motivated for people to make math-related content on YouTube, my enormous thanks to you, Grant, you’re making an enormous impact on YouTube and math.

[virtually_passed]

Thrilled to be announced as a winner to the some3 contest! Thanks so much for organising, Grant et al. It was also a delight to watch the other entries as well. Definitely a lot of gems in there. Im glad that there's room in youtube to carve out a space which isn't just cats playing piano.

[Mabi]

Thank you so, so, much for picking me as one of the winners! Congrats to everyone who participated, of course - the whole point of the competition wasn't really to win, after all.

Indeed, participating in SoME3 has made me think about all kinds of competitions (hackathons, CTFs, math olympiads, etc.) differently: the point is not to win, but to make/do something cool, whether that be an app, a puzzle solution or a satisfying proof. If one person enjoys my entry, I'd consider myself a winner. Even if I don't end up submitting anything, the creative process itself is immensely satisfying to me, and can often inspire further ideas - which is why I'll be making a build system for creating interactive articles like mine ("How Computers Use Numbers"). And even if no one except me will use it, I'll be satisfied in that I'll have made something cool.

[chillaxiommath]

Oh my! I never thought I’d say this, but it is so nice to be nominated! Thank you again Grant for running this contest and giving small channels like ours a place in the spotlight for a second. Congratulations to everyone!

[juliapoo]

Thank you for hosting this competition! I never expected to win tbh, I started by being curious what cayley graphs look like and making the tool, and then decided that whatever ill write some stuff abt it and submit. That's why it seems to lack motivation and goes all over the place, it's cuz i was simply documenting stuff I noticed when making the tool. I'm glad people enjoyed it regardless!

I'm pretty blown away by the quality of the other submissions, almost like I don't belong in with the other winners. There's so much cool stuff made by others and I'm happy to be part of it this time.

[AntonioLasoGonzalez]

Thanks to all the partcipants, winners and non-winners. You all make an effort to communicate the beauty of mathmatics to the rest of the world. <3

[FrostKiwi]

It was so fulfilling to participate this year. The energy of this community is beyond amazing ❤

[davidhillshafer]

Thank you for all the great content the SoME series has generated.

Over the summer, I visited several science museums with my kids, and many of them have a smattering of Astronomy, Dinosaurs, Geology and Minerals, etc. One museum even had a traveling exhibit of how Pixar movies are made. But I realized, I’ve never seen even a small math exhibit at any of the science, engineering, aviation, etc museums I’ve visited.

I think there’s an opportunity to make a kid friendly math exhibit for a larger science museum.

[drthox]

"... I imagine a lot of you are watching this video at 1.5x or 2x..."
Damn, I did not expect to get called out like that.

[blank]

Many thanks to you and to the people who organize this SoME thing. It is always a pleasure to watch the entries.

[kaliditzy]

I've watched so many of these videos and I didn't even realize they were SoME3 submissions, they were some of my favorite math videos over the past year, so this is just great to see for them.

[DaylenThimmMath]

Thank you so much for choosing me as an honorable mention! Also, thank you to all the judges, reviewers, and everyone organizing the competition. Without it, I probably would never have made a video and gotten started in this direction in the first place. I am sure this is also true for so many other participants!! Great job organizing the event!

[DudeWhoSaysDeez]

I have watched enough of the summer of math videos, that the algorithm just randomly recommends some of the videos. So it is almost uncanny how many of these videos I have seen. Great work to everyone involved!