3Blue1Brown’s most viewed videos of 2023
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Snapshot from 19 Oct 2026.
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I'm still astounded this is true
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Don't let it fool you!
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Order from chaos
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The Newton art puzzle
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How prisms work (full video linked above)
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Error correction is incredible
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But what is the Central Limit Theorem?
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The chessboard and coins puzzle
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Prime spirals
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But why would light "slow down"? | Visualizing Feynman's lecture on the refractive index
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This pattern breaks, but for a good reason | Moser's circle problem
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Fourier series
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Can you even imagine 2^256?
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Why π is in the normal distribution (beyond integral tricks)
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Infinite Lighthouses and π
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The limit of limiting arguments
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How wiggling charges give rise to light
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This tests your understanding of light | The barber pole effect
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Seeing with sound
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How to derive a formula for π
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How They Fool Ya (live) | Math parody of Hallelujah
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Answering viewer questions about refraction
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A simple image convolution
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Convolutions | Why X+Y in probability is a beautiful mess
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A pretty reason why Gaussian + Gaussian = Gaussian
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These integrals all equal π, until...
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A pretty way to add weighted dice
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A short on shorts
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25 Math explainers you may enjoy | SoME3 results
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The barber pole effect
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The split necklace puzzle (with a surprise topological solution)
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For anyone who might not know how links in shorts work
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What is a group?