Mathologer

Mathologer is presented by Burkard Polster, a maths professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He works with fellow maths professor Marty Ross and a small team who help write and check the scripts.

The videos take famous results, puzzles and paradoxes and explain them carefully, with clear animations. Topics include infinite series, famous constants such as pi and e, proofs, and maths hidden in everyday places. Some videos also take on popular myths and show why they do not hold up. The tone is friendly and enthusiastic, and the explanations build step by step.

Some highlights include:

An explanation of Riemann’s rearrangement paradox, which shows how reordering an infinite sum can change its answer.

A careful look at the famous claim that adding all the positive whole numbers gives minus one twelfth, and what it really means.

A step by step route to understanding one of the most famous equations in maths, linking e, pi and imaginary numbers.

The channel has around 969,000 subscribers.

Maths is the language of engineering, and Mathologer is a good way to build confidence with it. Ideas such as complex numbers and infinite series turn up in electrical engineering, signal processing and control systems. The channel suits students considering A level Further Maths, or any engineering degree where strong maths is essential.