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Zach Star @[email protected]

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(This channel used to be called MajorPrep, changed as of Jan


13:28
Responding to comments on my flat earth video
06:44
When you ask the internet any math question
09:23
How to compress an image with (basic) linear algebra
08:36
The first engineer (well, not really)
15:42
The math that proves the Earth isn't flat
07:33
How big is 1 billion?
07:29
When your friend asks you to engineer the Matrix
09:20
Probability is just...really weird
11:07
Just 3 questions/puzzles that seem obvious but aren't
21:07
The History of Engineering (in exactly 20 minutes)
06:15
When Isaac Newton discovers gravity (and everything else)
10:25
Probably the weirdest function I encountered as an engineering student
08:49
How I wish logistic growth was taught to me in Calc 2
11:25
The intuition behind the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem
10:16
Why following your compass will (almost) always lead you to the North or South Pole | Math of Maps
05:55
When you're an engineer in the Star Wars Universe
13:08
Why do Electrical Engineers use imaginary numbers in circuit analysis?
09:02
The scariest thing you learn in Electrical Engineering | The Smith Chart
04:10
When you're an engineer for the Titan submersible
20:00
Ranking all 22 engineering classes I took in college
07:13
Each point is connected to its closest neighbor, how many connections can a single point have (max)?
15:43
Why shadows (almost) always trace out hyperbolas (but it depends on where you live).
09:02
What are the odds that 3 'random' points on a sphere will form an acute triangle?
04:05
Engineering jobs in the future (probably) be like...
09:40
How should you arrange 7 water fountains in a mall to minimize the longest possible walk?
13:29
You can always win this game if you go second | An SOS (math olympiad) puzzle
08:28
The Poker Paradox
13:03
The Sierpinski-Mazurkiewicz Paradox (is really weird)
05:34
Watching a movie (or TV show) with a STEM major be like
08:27
A 1957 Putnam exam problem
07:46
Can you always pair an equal number of red and blue points with no intersection?
15:44
The Mathematics of the Casino | What people get wrong about gambling
04:45
Engineering in movies be like
05:16
If Saw was a typical engineering student
08:11
Can you always cover 10 points with 10 equally sized (non-overlapping) coins?
14:45
The applications of hyperbolic trig | Why do we even care about these things?
10:02
How you can solve dice puzzles with polynomials
05:42
No you guys, most shapes do not have a center of mass with this property (but some do)
12:47
A surprising topological proof - Why you can always cut three objects in half with a single plane
14:41
Teaching myself abstract algebra
13:49
Approximations. The engineering way.
16:52
What changes? | A lesson in statistics, incentives, and internet stupidity
09:20
Is there (always) a line that passes through exactly 2 points?
14:49
What I've been reading | STEM book recommendations
05:37
STEM students in non STEM classes be like...
10:40
Random things
12:18
An inverted pendulum puzzle
13:30
The Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, a proof from real analysis
19:28
Teaching myself an upper level pure math course (we almost died)
14:54
The intuition and implications of the complex derivative
11:45
Could you avoid being hit by a laser if you were in a room of mirrors?
09:42
A donut is not a sphere | Things you can do on one surface but not the other
08:30
Why imaginary numbers are needed to understand the radius of convergence
06:57
Engineering students be like...(Part 2)
18:43
The applications of non-euclidean distance | Metric Spaces
09:46
If the hour and minute hand on a clock look identical, can you always determine the time?
16:25
What happens at infinity? - The Cantor set
16:21
Things get weird at infinity
12:21
What would we see if we lived on a hypersphere?
13:19
We likely live in one of these 18 universes