3Blue1Brown’s most viewed videos of 2026
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Snapshot from 19 Oct 2026.
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Why you can't comb a hairy ball, and why we care
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The last IMO problem AI could not solve
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How (and why) to take a logarithm of an image
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There's never been a better time to go into math
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Reinventing Entropy | Compression is Intelligence Part 1
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The most beautiful formula not enough people understand
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Bacteria Grid Puzzle Solution
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Solution to the ladybug clock puzzle
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But what is cross-entropy? | Compression is Intelligence Part 2
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The lattice bacteria puzzle
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Covering 10 points, a surprisingly tricky puzzle.
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The ladybug clock puzzle
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The Phone Number puzzle
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The last IMO problem AI could not solve
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100 random chords, how many intersections?
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The jumping pegs puzzle
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Tie random ends: How many loops?
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Measuring the entropy of English
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The subset sum puzzle
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Escher's most mind-bending piece
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The 64 sugar cubes puzzle
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What's the perfect encoding? How do you know?