Thinking about a future in math
Grant shared his thoughts on mathematics as AI improves, considering what proof, conjecture and theory-building machines could mean for people entering the field.
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Grant Sanderson creates 3Blue1Brown, using animated visual explanations to help people understand mathematics, from linear algebra and calculus to neural networks.
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Back on the Numberphile Podcast
Grant joined Brady Haran for The Glimmer in our Eye, a conversation about AI and mathematics. The episode also points listeners to his recent guest essay on Terence Tao’s blog.
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A closer look at a difficult Olympiad problem
His video explores Problem 6 from the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad, building up the intuition behind its solution and closing with reflections on AI in math.
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Making the case for mathematical explanation
In a guest post on Terence Tao’s blog, Grant argued that mathematics should give more academic credit to explanations that reveal how ideas are discovered.
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Connecting cross-entropy to language models
Part two of Compression is Intelligence connects data compression with the loss function used to train large language models, then explores distillation and KL divergence.
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