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- Published on Mar 6, 2026
- Have a great time with Dr. Alan Parry watching Alan Becker's incredible video Animation vs. Math. Alan is a math professor at a large public university. In this video, he reacts to and explains some of the amazing mathematical concepts that Alan Becker used in his video.
The copyright of the original Animation vs. Math video is owned by Alan Becker. We also view the thumbnails of several of Alan Becker's videos on his RUclips channel as part of our commentary, for which Alan Becker also owns the copyright. This video is made with permission from Alan Becker's team. All viewers are encouraged to watch the original Alan Becker video in its entirety at the link below. It's pretty awesome!
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Animation vs. Math
Author: Alan Becker
RUclips Link: • Animation vs. Math
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Play-Doh Meets Dora by Carmen Maria and Edu Espinal
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All images used were created by me except any stills from the Animation vs. Math video or screen capture of Alan Becker's RUclips channel.
0:05 I said that my reaction to Animation vs. Geometry was the most watched video on my channel. This is no longer true. For quite some time now, this video is by far the most viewed video on my channel. Thank you so much to all of you for your support! I hope you'll subscribe and check out my other content too. I'm glad to have you here to share fun and amazing math with all of you!
Several have pointed out that it is one of Alan Becker's animators who is responsible for this video. The description gives writing and animating credit to someone by the name of Terkoiz. So, thank you Terkoiz for a great video!
a tip for if you want to move slowly in a video: if you press the button for , and . it very slowly move you back of foward respectively. i don't know the exact ammount it move but it feel like it move frame by frame. that's how i caught the small message
22:38 When each fired term explodes, it displays a decimal, which I believe is the first few digits of the given term.
Terkoiz used to be an animator for Hyun’s Dojo if anyone still remembers that.
At 9:11 you wouldn't distribute the exponent because it is outside the parentheses right? Do freshmen not know pemdas?
@ That's correct, you would not. It's not that a freshman (and certainly not all freshmen, that term is used more to indicate a novice at math rather than a specific group of people) don't know PEMDAS, it's just that the distributive property feels like a bypass to PEMDAS and this looks similar to a distributive property. So it's either a careless error, where the student just moves too quickly and doesn't catch it, or it's a misunderstanding of what the distributive property says and how it relates to the order of operations.
math in my class when i zone out for 5 milliseconds:
Bro that's true, just talk to your friend for 30 seconds and now the math changed from 1+1 to the quadratic formula or sum
@NeaSliwonand look away for another second and your dealing with the Riemann zeta function and the teacher calls you up to solve the Riemann hypothesis
@isabellaguo5783 man I'm cooked
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I love how this guy teaches math during a reaction video 😭
I put the math in because I think a reaction is only as interesting as how well you understand why the reaction happened. If you don't know why I think something is cool, why would you care that I thought it was cool?
Also as a math teacher, what I love most is helping people share in just how cool it all is.
Thank you!
@scholarsauceexcellent
@scholarsauce thx i am very weak in maths this did kinda helped me most of i am not going use now
Why crying emoji
You know is serious when even a Math Professor is surprised by a series.
Yeah
Yeah
sorry to break the "yeah" chain, but you DO know that Math Professors have emotions too, right?
@SethsNewChannel they do? they aren't soulless, mindless husks of people infected by the dangerous virus called ma*hematics?
@aryav25That’s why the guys from the UK deleted it.
Math class after being absent for one lesson:
6:30 Alan himself doesn’t have an especially mathematic background. He works on these animations with others. I believe most notable is Terkoiz, another animator who does have more mathematical knowledge.
Terkoiz the GOAT
Yep, exactly. All the math related ones (I think) all have Terkoiz as its main mathematical contributor
Wait, the same terkoiz that did the Shock 1 2 stick fight animation?? Thats amazing ive been wondering where he’s been, he’s legendary
@Blazet25 Same guy that made Alfa too.
Terkoiz is one of the stick fight OGs, I remember his Newgrounds (God I'm getting old) stuff
20:39 It's hard to catch, but for a split second you can see Euler's identity subtracts 2pi from its argument to rotate 360 degrees and perform an uppercut
"you can see Euler's identity subtracts 2pi from its argument to rotate 360 degrees and perform an uppercut" is a sentence I never thought I'd hear, lol
@justseffstuff3308 yeah Math is known for creating brand new sentences
I really have no idea what did you just say but that sounds smart to say (I'm naturally dumb btw) 😭😭
@gachashuki1234 when it comes to angles, pi radians = 180 degrees, so 2pi means the E was able to do a 360 degree turn
r/brandnewsentence
31:20 He's looking for an exit, which is why he uses e, ×, i, and a partially covered π to spell e×iT.
Love how this man has poured all his skill points toward math, that he didn't even notice EXIT being spelt on screen.
This video is so funny because even if you're math stupid the video makes you so used to looking at complex math that it's hard to notice a word even when orange does her best to show that it's a word
Fun fact: the educational videos are canonically dreams of the characters, it's been confirmed by the man, the myth, the legend, Alan Becker himself.
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@_Siloam_ this doesnt even connect to the video nor my comment.
@_Siloam_Dude, there is a wrong time to spread the gospel.
@HeirLionPrince ikr, plus, im not even christian.
@Tsbguy10well yeah your not christian but thats the point wre supposed to preach to anyone so they go to christianity..
6:31 Alan said in a reaction video that in his animation team there was this math nerd who really wanted to excute this idea and basically came up with most of the ways things were interpreted in the video
25:25 "The School is being raided by Zombies!"
The math teacher:
Edit: Stop spamming my inbox bruh
Lmao true
That’s crazy 💀
The function gun!
LOOOOLL
=f(*)
Having the 'antagonist' be e^ipi is pretty genius, its something so simple its easy to "discover" by accident, but also something completely alien and inexplicable, but also it ultimately is just a simple equation that naturally follows from the rules of math
π
i^i being a real number throws people as well.
Orange fighting e^ipi is what higher math feels like...
the way you explained A^0 =1 actually made way more sense then anything ive ever heard, thank you, it makes alot more sense
I'm glad it was helpful!
YES.
Was taught a^0 was equal to 1, but NEVER was taught why, and it irked me to no end. Seeing that explanation just blew my mind
Who put geometry in my math cereal
As far as I know you’re the only reaction video who’s actually explained what was going on with the whole integral to infinity part, and as someone who’s only learned integrals a while ago actually helped me to understand what was going on there.
This video deserves a lot more views just for that honestly. Love watching mathematicians watch this video and learning something new every time.
I'm really glad this was helpful and enjoyable. That integral thing was pretty cool. Hopefully the algorithm selects it for more impressions. Thanks for watching!
The explanation was definitely appreciated! Very few reactors seemed to understand that part, so it's always great to see when someone does. One of my favorites: there was a reactor who saw that part and immediately said, "Uh-oh, that integral goes from zero to infinity. A regular infinity can't counter that, he's gonna need something bigger." 😆
There is one extreme explanation video where they go into extreme detail about every part of it, especially the "transformer" section.
ruclips.net/video/MDPlRGMlm08/video.html
Despite understanding integrals, I couldn't make heads or tails of the explanation. Fundamentally, an integral is about chopping something up into a bunch of tiny pieces, finding the value of each tiny piece, and then adding all the values together. It's not about evaluating a function at each of its zeroes (which, spoiler alert, gives you 0), and then adding all the 0's together. I would not be surprised if the animation was just taking artistic license in this case; I know it's incredibly thorough and attentive to detail with the math as it is, but it'd be very hard to get *everything* right.
@isavenewspapers8890 Certainly there's some artistic license being used here. But the idea I think is the bunching up of the curves which are infinitesimally thin to make something. That invokes the idea of an integral which is an infinite sum of infinitesimal quantities that produces (typically) a finite value, which is why I think he went with it. But you're right, there's no actual integration happening and admittedly, my explanation is rather quick and not particularly precise.
26:50 Everybody misses the fact that the tangent gun is actually a derivative gun. e^ipi is the constant -1. The derivative of a constant is zero so he turns each individual e^ipi into zero by taking its derivative.
I like that. I didn't put that together from that. Which is unfortunate, usually I catch puns like tangent for derivative. I just assumed he was multiplying by zero due to the zero of the tangent function, but I like your interpretation much better. Thanks!
I'll repost the comment i just made, because it seems relevant here.
For real θ, tan θ can be evaluated as follows:
1. On the unit circle in the Cartesian plane, travel a distance of θ counterclockwise from the right.
2. Wherever you land on the unit circle, draw the line tangent to the unit circle at that point.
3. Draw the line segment from that point to the x-axis along the tangent line.
4. Take the length of the line segment. If tangent line slope is positive, apply a minus sign.
5. The value you get is tan θ.
And there you have it. Have you ever wondered how the tangent function got its name? That's the answer.
Now, at 25:43, go frame-by-frame on the explosion effects. Here's my interpretation: the circle we see is a unit circle, and the radius shown indicates that we're halfway around. We see the line tangent to the unit circle at the point where we are. So, I believe that this is meant to represent evaluating tan π in some way, which would make sense, because that evaluates to 0. We already know that e^(iπ) represents going halfway around the unit circle in the complex plane, after all. My guess is that what we're really evaluating here is tan arg e^(iπ).
If I may ask, how did you get "derivative" out of what happened in the video? I don't understand.
@isavenewspapers8890 : There are several ways in which one may compute a derivative. One is finding the tangent or tangent point, for example , shrinking the secant down to the tangent. Since e^ipi=1=constant then taking its tangent or slope of y/x would be zero since the derivative of a constant is zero. TSC constructs a tan gun . Each time he shoots an individual e^ipi=1 he converts it into zero by taking its derivative. When he adds the infinity (stone) he is then able to eliminate whole groups of them in one shot because the infinity sign allows him to "tan" infinite many e^ipi's.
@isavenewspapers8890its a math pun.
The derivative is/can be defined by taking the slope of a tangent line.
Which is a separate thing from the tangent function but they share the same name.
15:00 me just trying to figure out wtf he's saying
My brain is spinning
My understanding is that there's kind of a team behind the Alan Becker name, at least one or some of which happen to be mathematically inclined. They shot the idea, worked out the specifics and then the animation was born.
Edit: That Freshman's Dream bit is really neat, I can't believe I never did that (or don't remember doing that) on any of my exams. Seems like a trap that's easy to fall into.
Yeah, it's a really common error that really easy to mess up, especially when you're going fast. I see it most often in college algebra, but it occasionally crops up in calculus or even higher classes.
@scholarsauceare exponentials not introduced with their place in the order of operations in your system?
No, Alan basically said in his reaction video that one of his team members had a major(?) in math
There's a video where Alan Becker goes through the video with the person who helped him with all the 'math nerd stuff' on his channel I believe.
@JM-nothing-morethey should have learned the acronym “PEMDAS” meaning parentheses->exponents-> multiplication-> division-> addition-> subtraction otherwise known as the order of operations in math.
Teachers: only watch this video😊
21:58 This is actually even more intricate than described, because the explosions from the different values are actually the numbers it would be equal to.
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@_Siloam_ the heck does that have to do with this
@_Siloam_ I don't hate any religions but please stop trying to push random people into Christianity.
@LinDoingStuff you should they hold back humanity
@witerunguard1737religions dont push back humanity, hating does
6:22 I think I heard that he had someone else help him with the maths of this animation, but can't remember for certain.
Yeah I found out these are put together by one of his animators named Terkoiz.
29:17 "Who knew math could be so dangerous?" ENGINEERS.
I did in fact go back and check the messages... Sigh...
That's awesome. You're not the only one, it already caused a spike in my analytics for the video showing that a lot of people are doing the same. Hopefully it made you laugh and that you enjoyed the rest of the video.
@scholarsauce the visual representation of mathematic's interactions is fun. But as the videos shows a war of mathematic's is of a extreme nature.
A war with a physical object like a black hole would be said interactions. Did you ever think of gravity's relationship with time?
How is gravity effecting light? It is increasing the exponent attached to time. It takes greater and greater time to go the same distance even light starts lagging and seeming to pause but it is advancing just taking fractals amounts.
I wonder if you could see a black hole in a very long time lapse is the gamma rays the light that does manage to escape eventually?
Euler? I only heard that once.
@loganshaw4527 Well, if you could see gamma rays.
Also; your penultimate paragraph gives me serious flashbacks to pannenkoek2012’s video on floats 😅.
@McDonnellDouglasmd90sseuler? i hardly know her
Bro genuinely looked flabbergasted in the thumbnail
Alan Becker asked University people if the equations in his animations are right if it’s not, he asked them to show what he does to make it right that’s how he got all these equations to be correct and right
How doing a maths test feels like:
16:01 Another interesting detail here that I'm not sure you picked up on.
For this part you need to literally watch frame-by-frame to pick up all the details lol
Euler's identity takes out a negative sign to fight with, so the stick figure takes out a positive sign to counter it. He holds the positive sign like a cross, as though he's fighting a devil of some kind
Euler's identity turns the negative sign into a -1 and swings it. The stick figure didn't expect this, and in response, turns his positive sign into a positive 1.
When their weapons clash, it creates zeroes, because -1 + 1 = 0
Euler's identity decreases the value of their weapon to -4. When their weapons collide again, Euler's weapon turns into -3 and the stick figure's 1 disappears, forcing him to take out another. The same thing happens each time Euler swings at him - the negative number increases and the stick figure needs to repeatedly extend another positive 1 to block.
The stick figure then takes out a second +1 and swings with both at the same time. He then combines his two +1s into a +2, takes out another + sign, combines the *+ signs* into a multiplication sign, duplicating the +2 symmetrically to make it look like a bow, then pulls an equal sign out from the bow like it's a bowstring, and fires a 4, because 2 x 2 = 4.
You mean the second coming?
@OPA11 No, because I don’t think the guy making the video has any knowledge of the characters, their lore, or their names
@screamingblackhole k
29:02 WHY IS THAT SCREAM SO CUTE
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I don't really understand math, but I do like watching the reactions of people who are passionate about it
EDIT: I don't know why this is not obvious to some of you, but of course I know basic math, but considering what the video is about, it SHOULD BE common sense that the math I'm talking about is not "basic math". Come on. Some of you ask me addition questions toddlers can do; you should ask where your common sense went.
Who put hieroglyphics in my math cereal
Yeah😅
@OrenMystery Let me guess: it was the Eye of Horus staring back at you?
@OrenMystery sorry I just put e to I pi In your cereal
You shouldn't worry about it its just imaginary and complex numbers
4:01 I am trying to understand his yapping lol
31:27
He tried to say “exiT” which means he wants to exit this mathematical world
Edit1: How did I get famous for such a small detail
Edit2: Holy I become the top comment
Edit3:Dayum 500 likes
The broader story is that Orange (actually The Second Coming) ended up in this world somehow and is trying to understand it, but when he accidentally discovers Euler's equation (EE) and watches it 'escape' through its doorway, he tries to follow - but EE is timid and closes the door in Orange's face, leaving Orange still trapped.
Almost everything else that follows is Orange trying to find EE again and the escalation in aggression to force EE to open the doorway and follow it through, because Orange is trying to leave this mathematical world. When Orange finally succeeds and discovers going through that 'reversed' door doesn't actually leave the world but instead goes to the mathematical world's inverted, negative nature, and furthermore sees he's 'breaking' it with what he set in motion, he flees with EE, escapes back out into the positive realm, and that's when he has a moment of 'I'm really sorry, I didn't mean for this to get so out of control' and apologizes, making up with EE.
That's when Orange tries to explain what he really wants, and comes up with the 'exiT' symbol, but EE demonstrates again that its doorway won't actually help - it just switches between the positive and negative mathematical space by multiplying itself by i.
But ultimately EE comes up with a way to send Orange elsewhere, away from the mathematical world, and does so, leading to Orange's next adventure.
The math is great, but there's also a fun story being told here. 🙂
so the only part he didnt understand right away
was because orange was using “language letters” instead of “math letters” 😅😂
I was about to comment that
@AkiliLion I think EE isn't timid so much as 'you're not really ready for this' initially.
so good at math he forgot english
I love how some moments have ominous music, like dividing by zero and it just keeps going, as a example
4:14 Not a single number in sight
Teach really likes every comments lol
I love finding people who understand the relevant math to appreciate all the amazing details in this animation.
Wow, and he still reads his comments even a month after uploading. Impressive.
t folse nuclear is another awesome youtuber, hes very knowledgeable
I also love how the integral staff sweeps out an area whenever it swings (and the mega-gun was showing a helix, suggesting it's multivariate, which is why it broke the single integral). I also wanna say that series at the end has something to do with n-dimensional hyperspheres, but I don't remember what
Not ''to do with n-spheres'' that formula IS THE FORMULA which outputs the volume of ALL unit n-spheres. Input n=3 iirc and it gives 4/3π! (! Is not a factorial, r is 1 cause unit sphere)
"N-dimensional hypersphere" sounds like a song title or sci-fi technobabble.
I've seen many reactions to this video, and this one is the best. You know all the math in the video and catch almost all the subtle references most reactors miss.
Wow! Thanks! That's high praise. I appreciate it and am glad you enjoyed it!
I agree, this was so good to watch, I feel like I understand the nuances in this animation a lot better now
It's good for people who in college or high school and run into this they can study from it and take note*
Having allan beckers animations being so good that even math professors watch it
“sorry my son put me up to this”
Being good at math and watching this has to be top 5 experiences
Mods, turn this man into a wojak
3:45 bro there isn't a single number yet, it's all alphabets😭
I can understand the feeling.
But they all stand in for numbers. And there're far more interesting things to say when you don't specify what number they represent.
@scholarsauce happy new year
4:49 as someone who took biology as major thank God i didn't took maths as my major out of curiosity 💀
3:18 I love math but I don't know what this is 💀
It's the math of complex numbers. Just another number system like the regular numbers that you're familiar with, but with a richer structure.
I still don't get it😂
@scholarsaucewhat😭
@Guacrodile he means it’s math but harder
3:22 I love math, but I already know since I was grade 1+(i^4)-1
1:29 What I remember from class (I zooned out for just 1 second)
2:45 What's on my math test...
If the math subject was this it could be everyones fav subjects in their opinion
I don't know how to express this, but when I saw 0 to the power of 0, something in my intuition was suddenly triggered. At that moment, I felt a kind of instinctive fear and horror.
Just like when I was a child, when I saw the word "cancer", even though I didn't know what cancer was, I still had a brief tinnitus and chills.
Perhaps, instinctively, I knew that this was an unnatural, abnormal and "destroyed normal" concept. I should feel horror because its manifestation in material reality would be catastrophic.
Well, that's quite visceral. Hope you enjoyed the rest of the video though.
As an oversized kid, I now enjoy this unique mathematical intuition. After all, now I can understand what this feeling is, and it is really convenient to intuitively understand things such as the four-dimensional space structure and supersymmetry theory.
There are actually some hidden small details in this video. For example, the mathematical value of the protagonist is -1, which is hinted in many places in the video. At the moment he pushed the Euler formula into the portal, the i used by the Euler formula to open the portal fell, so at this time, the mathematical values of both of them were -1, a real number. It is for this reason that when he and the Euler formula accidentally rushed into the imaginary dimension at the same time, the reality structure began to collapse.
At the end of the video, the Euler formula used the gamma function to increase the dimension of the protagonist, thus sending him out of the mathematical dimension and sending him to the physical dimension. This process gives the protagonist an infinitely high dimensional existence, which leads to his ability to spontaneously increase the dimension from a zero-dimensional point to a complete stickman in the subsequent geometric dimension.
Another interesting fact is that the protagonist's head is a hollow ring, which is his unique character feature. This feature can also be seen in VS physics later.
Stuff like this makes me want to learn math
I'm glad. It is a remarkably beautiful subject with lots of really cool ideas!
same
My brain is fried by the information you showed me
I’m loving the enthusiastic response to each new reference, because it really shows how much thought went into the source material! Excellent analysis, thank you.
I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
For videos like this, one tip: the < and > keyboard keys (really, the comma and dot keys, which have the < and > symbols above them) let you move through the video one frame at a time. This way, you can more carefully search and show what is going on without needing to skip through the video with your mouse.
Thanks! I appreciate the tip. I think someone else in the comments here mentioned that too. It's definitely helpful and I'll use it for sure next time.
19:21 He breaks it into the parameterizations, sin(t) and cos(t). Just another fun and subtle way of playing with visuals.
I don't understand what I'm watching but its so interesting
How am I barely getting recommended this AFTER GRADUATING 😭
You can really tell that this guy is a teacher.
It's undeniable because of one main reason.
(He manually moves his mouse to press the pause/play button in the bottom left corner)
Hey! Lol!
You're right though, I am a teacher. And yes I know you can hit the spacebar to pause and I still use the mouse. I think that's more cause I'm old though...
@scholarsauce You can also just click the middle of the screen
@Airewelefamily that one I knew and use routinely, but just didn't want the mouse to get too much in the way of the screen capture.
you can click anywhere to pause
@scholarsauce A cool detail that you can also use on youtube is that you can press ","(coma) and "."(period) on the keyboard when the video is paused to go 1 frame forward or backward.
This way finding exact spot you want to mention is easier
27:42 Again, he "zeros out " each term by taking its derivative. When he adds the infinity then he is able to fire out an infinite number of shots eliminating groups of e^ipi in one shot. It's like he replaced his musket with a shotgun.
what my math class watches when i am absent
6:27 I believe one of his team was the main math nerd behind this, and the Animation Vs Education series (as it has been named by the community) is still a new series when compared to Animation vs Animation (the first series) and Animation vs Minecraft (the main spinnoff) which are more lore-driven and are about our main group of 5 stickfigures and their friends.
Terkoiz, in particular.
@flarefrost2101 yeah that sounds about right, couldn't remember which one in particular when I wrote this initially
The amount of things I heard in this video as a 12 year old that I can’t understand here is very immense
It's actually terkoiz, the lead animator, who thought of this and alan just went with it
9:16 (6+2)^2 = a^2 + b^2 + 2ab. Still remembers this formula.
Good Old Days 😮💨
4:07 if I’m being totally honest.. I didn’t understand a single word of that.
That's all right. It's more important whether it was fun to listen to it. And maybe, hopefully, it might inspire you to want to learn more about it.
@scholarsauce well that depends on whatever they teach in high school or college because next year I’ll be in high school ninth grade which I doubt they’re gonna teach it in ninth grade cause that seems like a way too complicated for ninth grade but it it is seemingly interesting but I really do want to know if they teach in high school college
@scholarsauce what’s funnier is that I’m somewhat of a math major (not really)
@XelmangniXD Some of it will be there. It'll build little by little. In 9th grade you'll probably recognize more of the math in the Animation vs. Geometry video, a lot of the stuff in the back half of this one, you'd need to wait for trigonometry/precalculus and a little bit of calculus, which could be done in high school or early college.
You and me both pal
31:25 here he tries to write "exit" using the numbers and symbols
little detail that adds a lot of depth: when Orange is fighting *e,* Orange weilds a small 1 arc-length as a rapier.
when *e* shoots him with a the infinite shrapnel, Orange _bends_ the rapier into a circumference, multiplies it by *pi,* and turns it into a solid shield _circle._
when *e* charges him, he pushes the 8x to the circle, extruding it into a cylinder, which pushes *e* back.
Orange keeps bending the fight, riding the edge from calculus to geometry, so *e* invokes the full power of calculus turning itself into Mecha One basically, embodying all the definitions of 1, so Orange's _calculus_ gun no longer works on him.
the only thing that beats him and his abstract form is the solidity of a geometry plot, a corkscrew sweep of radius 100.
Holy canoly
Thats a lot of words
16:13 I really like how the bow was made with 2X2= and it shoots 4's as arrows
I expected you to find many problems but you didn’t, that show just how detailed these videos are.
Yeah, I've been really impressed by them too.
*Understandable*
Its a new experience to listen math from a foreign source
I have a terrible brain when it comes to remembering terminology for maths for longer than a couple weeks, but even I felt the hype of euler’s formula pulling out the integral of 0 to infinity
7:20 Math and Physics are the domains of science where you have a real sense of journey and progression. You start with something basic and then almost by necessity you build upon that into some really incredible ideas in directions you really would have had no idea would be waiting for you. Math and by extension physics have a ton of corners and nooks and crannies with lots of stuff to find if you just keep looking.
26:55 OK you got me on that!
27:50 You didn't mention that Orange escapes the shrinking circle by punching a higher dimensional hole into it.
29:15 Danger is half the fun, right?
30:10 Something I saw in the comments to the original video is that the reason the integral couldn't stop the gun at this point is because the integral doesn't converge.
30:50 The imaginary realm is cracking because working with imaginary numbers causes some things to break.
31:25 Orange is trying to convey that he's looking for a doorway or portal to leave this realm. The joke between 31:25 and 31:29 is that the symbols (e, multiplication symbol, i, and the half-covered pi) spell "exit".
32:40 A comment I saw noted that that summation is the sum of the volumes of spheres in all dimensions, and by introducing i, the imaginary sum of the volumes of all spheres in all dimensions equals -1. e's inverted the volume of Orange in all dimensions that e can get to, meaning that Orange has to go somewhere else, which is hopefully back home!
The one thing I have to correct is that the reason the imaginary dimension starts to break isn’t because “working with imaginary numbers causes things to break” else it would have broken sooner seeing as Euler’s formula went to the imaginary dimension several times already. The reason is because both the entities in the imaginary dimension were equivalent to real numbers at the time. As noted by another comment (well technically a reply to another comment but): “the mathematical value of the protagonist is -1, which is hinted in many places in the video. At the moment he pushed the Euler formula into the portal, the i used by the Euler formula to open the portal fell, so at this time, the mathematical values of both of them were -1, a real number.” This causes the imaginary realm to break because real numbers being in the imaginary realm breaks the “physics” of this reality.
@Charlie_the_dog Ah, that makes much more sense! I like that.
31:25 He spelt "exit" as he wants to leave
People who understand complex math like its a normal tuesday are the most creepy types of people😭😭
Well, that's good. It is close to Halloween after all.
I do regularly joke that I never have to dress up on Halloween, because as a math professor, I'm already the scariest thing on campus.
@scholarsauce Lol XDDD
👀
Are you calling me creepy..
@scholarsauce Yeah that's true. Honestly I don't know why people are afraid of maths.
Coming from a middle schooler thats going into high school next year. Is this what reading the second act of the king in yellow feels like-
6:38 His lead animator is actually the brain behind the video! He himself did not really understand a lot of what happened (as said in his and his friend, DJ's reaction to it in Animator vs Games channel)
watching this video made me aware of aleph numbers, and that subsequently managed to give me lore about an entity in a game
math
10:25 Honorable mention: He was struggling to pause with that mouse haha, but still, this does not deny the fact that ur smart lol 😂
I like the e section where he acts like any of us know what he’s talking about
wait isn't x2x2=²
I wish someone made a vr game about math where you can just take out numbers and learn about new things.
2:34 I didn’t understand a thing
and i understood it all
and i am still wondering why the hell are letters in math
@UndyingPlayernerd
@ColeReynolds-h5zik bro
But i even know what does a 4d dimensional person look like because i am one
6:27 in Alan Becker's team, there's a member who's a math expert (Terkoiz) who contributes in the making
This video (and channel in general) is proof positive to me that there are still people who genuinely enjoy seeing someone who is passionate about a topic talk about it
Thanks! I'm glad there are still people who enjoy that!
first time i heard someone explain everything to me while reacting
So, the script and everything math for this one was apparently concocted by one of alan becker's team. At this point, he has a team of animators working for him, and one of tjem is clearly a math nerd.
26:54 you could say… that he has a friend inside him…
2:54 I don't understand anything😢
Same bro
@abbadmirzayou will, soon enough. its easier than it looks.
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kinda same
Same bro, they only taught me business math and some general math
He would be the coolest math teacher if he showed this video in class
sup! for the later reactions, you can use < and > to move the video frame by frame
Thanks for the tip!
BTW the Second Coming did all that just to find out what "e to the I pie" was
deserving video + the explanations.
Animation vs math successfully taught me more math in a few minutes than school did in 12 years.
Watched the entire ad as people need their bags.
I fucking despise maths
The tangent function towards the 0 is what manipulates the cos functions which formulates e^ipi
The equation at the end is interesting, it turns the taylor series for e^pi into the equation for the area of an n-sphere.
The result is that e^pi = the sum of all spheres with an even number of dimensions, 2, 4, 6, 8, etc... then all the spheres get canceled out when I is added to the exponent.
I understanded like 62% of that and my brain is gone
5:55 π for life (or ”Life of Pi”) ✊🏻!
I learnt alot about cosine and tangent just because of this
I like how you explained how the math in some scenes made sense, despite me being pretty awful in math itself. It was entertaining and educative as hell, I learned a thing or two, haha
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it and found it educational and fun!
if things likes this was shown in my math class, I would never fear math ever again
18:18 "oh it was five" he's a professor not for nothing💀
Indeed. 😆
@scholarsauce9 months ey? Did tha baby born now
I love how since zero isnt used much since when putting it as the last zero in a decimal most teachers would ask you to remove it, thats why in the animation when something = 0 the zero would disappear immediately