Fellow Canadian math-prof-turned-youtuber @MihaiNicaMath has a cool video on how to figure out the chance that a team wins a best of 7 series given that they won, say, the first game. I had posted on X that the Oilers have a 21/32 chance of winning hockey's Stanley Cup given they won the first game using an exhaustive tree diagram (modelling this as even coinflips), but this is much cleaner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zf2L...
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After 7 years as a YouTuber, I'm finally launching a Patreon! patreon.com/DrTrefor. I would be so grateful if you checked it out - even as a free member:)
On Patreon I plan to share early access to my videos that are ad-free until they go public, behind-the-scenes content, share my journey as a youtuber and professor, and be able to interact a bit closer with you.
In 3 days, I return to my day job as a professor - I took a year off of teaching for a study leave where I worked on YouTube and other projects. I loved it. I want to keep going full steam on YouTube because I think math outreach that helps support you in your math journey and inspires a love of math is just super important. The videos I've worked on over this study leave take WAAAAAY longer to make than the content I used to make, and I really want to keep that momentum up.
Don't worry, everything here on YouTube will remain the same - and I'm not going to be obnoxiously spamming you about this. But I wanted to let you know at least at the start!
To my existing YouTube channel members who have already been supporting me for years in some cases, you are all amazing and it helps so much. I'm not removing YouTube channel members, they are staying just as they were and if anything will get better as I focus on making more behind-the-scenes content. But for those who prefer Patreon over YouTube memberships (Patreon takes a lower cut), you have that option.
And please don't feel at all bad Patreon isn't for you - I totally get it. Watching videos, leaving comments, sharing, all of that makes a huge difference for the channel as well, and ultimately it's the millions of little actions like that which truly make this channel viable. Thank you!!
Tomorrow on this channel I'm releasing a really cool video on the Snowball Earth that I'm super proud of. If you want to watch that early and without ads until it goes public, then check out the Patreon: patreon.com/DrTrefor
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I'll be live streaming a public math talk called "The Weird, Wiggly, and Wonderful World of Topology" tonight at 7:00 Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7) Mar 12th. It will stream on @HermannsLive here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI4KV....
Abstract: Imagine shapes that you can stretch and contort - but not fully break. The fascinating mathematical field of Topology is the study of shapes with this flexibility. Topologists get excited over silly-sounding questions like “how many holes does a straw have?”, but such questions can lead to many very cool applications to the real world that we will explore in this talk. For instance, suppose we scrumple up a map of Victoria. As long as we don’t rip the map, no matter how much we scrumple it there will always be one point that is exactly where it started. Weird! In this talk, we’re going to see a whole bunch of Dr. Bazett’s favourite math theorems and explore this wonderful world of topology
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This channel is about helping you learn math. I've got full playlists for Discrete Math, Linear Algebra, Calculus I-IV and Differential equations, as well as many more videos on cool math topics or about learning effectively.
I am an Assistant Teaching Professor teaching mathematics at the University of Victoria, in Canada. I completed my PhD in a fun branch of math called Algebraic Topology at the University of Toronto. Many of the videos on this channel were filmed during my time as an Assistant Professor, Educator at the University of Cincinnati.
Mathematics is a journey we can all participate in. My videos can help support you, give you tools, and show you some of beauty and power of mathematics. But ultimately it is a journey we must travel together, so make sure you don't JUST watch my videos. Ask questions, try problems, and do as much math as you can on your own too!