Best Math Videos to Watch: Bitcoin, Game Theory, Polynomials and More

The long weekend is almost over, but there are still a few days left to catch up on some great videos. Everything on the list below is available on YouTube and VK.

Best Math Videos of 2025

1. How Did Bitcoin Change the World? How mathematics automates trust.

2. How Do You Comb a Hedgehog? The most unusual theorem you’ll ever encounter!

3. Why Do We Count to Ten? How we arrived at the decimal system — and what alternatives existed and still exist today.

4. The Mathematics of Negotiation. How to find a compromise using math.

5. Littlewood Polynomials. The beauty and surprising properties of these mysterious polynomials.

Math Videos on Big Ideas That Still Matter

6. How Do You Divide by Zero? What modern mathematics actually says about dividing by zero.

7. Artificial Intelligence. Where it came from, where it stands today, and where it’s heading. Still as relevant as ever.

Math Videos About Numbers Worth Watching

8. Transcendental Numbers. One of my personal favorite episodes — a genuinely “pure math” topic with real beauty to it.

9. The Square Root of Two. The first episode to hit one million views (even though it was originally conceived as a warm-up for the Transcendental Numbers video).

10. Complex Numbers. A beautiful story about extraordinary numbers.

11. Zero. How “nothing” became the most important number in human history.

12. Negative Numbers. Why were they rejected for thousands of years?

More Math Content to Explore

There have been many other episodes as well — on paradoxes, the Weierstrass function, entropy, and much more.

What episode stuck with you the most?