Today was quite bad on the mental health front. Spring has long been the worst season for me. I was able to make myself do something, though. I spent about an hour watching math videos, including a pleasing intro to the concept of compactness by a YouTuber called Morphocular.
Tag: topology
Video Dreams
Today was busy, and I didn’t find a lot of time for math. I did watch some of the series Essence of Calculus by YouTube math communicator 3Blue1Brown, which was enjoyable. I also played around a bit with tools that might help me make my own math videos someday. That’s something I’d really like to do. As I’ve said elsewhere, for me, math is something to be communicated.
Here’s my favorite of the 3Blue1Brown videos I’ve seen:
I don’t expect to make anything as good as this for a long time, if ever—3Blue1Brown is one of the top math communicators on the Internet—but I find it inspirational (not to mention fascinating in itself).