Videos

Explainer videos on mathematics and complex ideas — made because I can’t help it.

I love explaining things. When I encounter an idea that feels beautiful or surprising, my instinct is to figure out how to share it. Making videos is one way I do that.

Latest video

An explainer on an algorithm from a master’s course at UvA. The target audience is mathematicians — but I’ve tried to make it approachable even without a deep math background.

Note: the video works best in Chrome. It may not load in all browsers.

More coming

More videos are in progress. Topics will include mathematics, learning, and whatever else seems worth explaining.

I make these videos because I find something worth sharing, not to a schedule. The process of making an explainer also forces you to understand something at a deeper level than just knowing it — you have to understand it well enough to give it to someone else.

If there’s a topic you’d like to see explained, feel free to reach out.

A passion for explaining

The question I keep coming back to is: how do you explain something so it sticks? Not just so someone can repeat it — but so they actually feel it. That question is what drives my teaching, my videos, and most of my conversations.

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