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by bobajeff 32 days ago
I like to watch 3blue1brown too but I think it's a bit of an exaggeration to say his topics are accessible to normal folks. From my perspective I think it's more realistic to say he makes videos that shows you the beauty in math without having to understand it really. Which is valuable since most people get turned off on math because tiresome drills and tests hammered into them at school by people with zero interest in it.
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Quite true. Real math needs practice and calculation to build the intuition and motivation towards the abstraction we want to construct. The video is more of a complementary material to the boring lectures (my prof uses 3b1b videos sometimes).