3Blue1Brown’s most viewed videos of 2020
Lifetime totals, not views in this range.
Snapshot from 19 Oct 2026.
- Rank 1:

Exponential growth and epidemics
- Rank 2:

Simulating an epidemic
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Group theory, abstraction, and the 196,883-dimensional monster
- Rank 4:

Why “probability of 0” does not mean “impossible” | Probabilities of probabilities, part 2
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But what are Hamming codes? The origin of error correction
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Binomial distributions | Probabilities of probabilities, part 1
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Complex number fundamentals | Ep. 3 Lockdown live math
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The impossible chessboard puzzle
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Trigonometry fundamentals | Ep. 2 Lockdown live math
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What makes the natural log "natural"? | Ep. 7 Lockdown live math
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What is Euler's formula actually saying? | Ep. 4 Lockdown live math
- Rank 12:

The simpler quadratic formula | Ep. 1 Lockdown live math
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![Tips to be a better problem solver [Last live lecture] | Ep. 10 Lockdown live math](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QvuQH4_05LI/mqdefault.jpg)
Tips to be a better problem solver [Last live lecture] | Ep. 10 Lockdown live math
- Rank 14:

The medical test paradox, and redesigning Bayes' rule
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Logarithm Fundamentals | Ep. 6 Lockdown live math
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Lockdown math announcement
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Imaginary interest rates | Ep. 5 Lockdown live math
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Hamming codes part 2: The one-line implementation
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The power tower puzzle | Ep. 8 Lockdown live math
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Intuition for i to the power i | Ep. 9 Lockdown live math
- Rank 21:

The DP-3T algorithm for contact tracing (with Nicky Case)