We've popped it here, but it's a legit podcast...
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The greatest cross-over event in history.

Numberphile and 3Blue1Brown? One hour long? Awesome.

"When you're forced to articulate things, it clarifies thoughts"
Love that quote

A surprise to be sure but a welcome one.

“You're much more influenced by the people you spend your time with than you are by pre-established passions.” ~ Grant Sandrson

I tell my kids, want to see your future, look at your friends.

Grant is a happy go lucky version of Grey

yay, the two guys who did more for my education than school.

If Grant wrote a textbook, I'd certainly buy it immediately...

That animation in this video is almost hypnotic

This should be on the main channel

My private calculus tutor, Jesse, told me about 3blue1brown about a year ago at this point. I am still thankful to this day that Jesse saw the burning interest in maths I had, beyond my horrific struggles, and wanted to encourage it further by influencing me to watch Grants work. It was life changing for me. While I am still struggling at calculus; it will likely take me 4 years to get through the calculus sequence + DiffEq when it takes most people 2-2.5 years. Grants videos, and some others, helped me to see what's beyond the knowing and see the understanding which is what made me double down and not quit.....I'm over 40 BTW and sticking with this has been the biggest soul search in my life so far. People like this, who make this content, really help more than they will likely ever realize. Thank you Grant and Brady

I appreciate the slower pace. Not because I like it slower myself, but because I have no problems kicking the video up to 1.5x or 2x and following along at the pace that I find comfortable myself, but someone who talks too fast can't be slowed down with any sense of quality. It gives the viewer more control.

34:44 thought this was a hello internet episode for a second, sounded like cgpgrey there

I think the first 3b1b video I saw was "What does it feel like to invent mathematics." I was in my 3rd or 4th year in a mathematics PhD program at the time and was just starting to write my first results that lead to my dissertation. I've really adored Grants videos and have been watching them since.
I make sure to tell my students to watch at least one of his videos every semester.

As for your predilection for mathematics not being up for research, eh, I doubt it. Research is not particularly more than understanding already known things. Novel research is what happens when you find answers to your questions, and you also happen to be familiar enough with the literature to know the problem was open before you found the answer.

If it's in any way nice to hear Grant, I, a young but professional research mathematician, find mathematical value in your videos. I'm still really trying absorb your Fourier analysis videos. I still think of the Fourier series in terms of topological groups and homomorphisms, and I've still not been able to distill it down to explain it to someone without a familiarity with group theory and measure theory (So I don't really understand it yet). Keep up the good work.

Though I very much wanted to learn more about the person behind 3blue1brown, this interview surpassed all expectations.  It was phenomenally interesting.  Kudos!

I disagree with Grants view that CS should be taught mandatorily in schools and that mathematical subjects such as Calculus should be taught as electives. As was discussed in the video, the quality of math learning resources is fairly dismall as far as textbooks and online resources such as Wikipedia are concerned. CS, on the other hand, has managed to churn out great resources for self teaching programming skills. If someone wants to learn math after secondary education, the barrier to entry is massive because the initial learning curve is fairly steep, whereas someone wanting to teach themselves CS will not only find a wealth of well made materials, but those materials will be made for self study. Because of this, Math needs the helping hand that school will give you whereas CS really doesnt.

Grey is sounding weird in this HI episode.