Oxford University Mathematician REACTS to "Animation vs. Math"

Watch the original video by Alan Becker here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J6Ou4q8vE

Orange learned math in 20 minutes and yet i cant even understand half of the things he learned after 12 years

Alan said in the comments of the animation that his lead animator is "the math nerd behind all this" so big props to him too

Seeing this dude get excited about numbers makes me so happy for some reason

I think this is what students who struggle with math need. Interactive math thats fun and makes something thats hard be more fun to keep people motivated and entertained so that they can pay attention and learn in the process

Did you notice when stick-man was "talking" to e^i\pi, he pulled out a multiplication and put it between the e and the i\pi, and was leaning over the end of the pi covering it up a bit... it spelled out "exit"... 😁

What impresses me as a non-mathematician is that all of the mathematicians say every single thing in the video is correct (In terms of the equations and such)

i have not understood a single word this entire video but i enjoyed every minute of it, watching him get excited for each new part of it iconic

I love how you can always see the exact moment he goes from lecturing about mathematical principles to remembering he’s talking about a stickman fighting the personification of these principles…

My favorite part of this animation is when Orange shoots his infinity function gun at the big mech, and the mech uses a Limit on its right hand to turn the infinity blast into an Integral as its main weapon. Like, the final boss having an integral as its weapon hits me particularly hard cause when I was learning them for the first time, it definitely felt like a boss fight

one thing that’s very easy to miss: 24:11 in the background, alongside zeta, phi, and delta, there is Aleph. hard to see, but it’s there! (tip: it’s huge)

As a mathematics teacher, I always dream of explaining math concepts in an interesting and amazing way. Let me say, Alan Becker have done wonderful work in this regard, even though words are not enough to express my feelings. In my review/reaction video (animation vs math in Urdu Hindi), I tried to explain this masterpiece in Urdu/Hindi for roughly 1 billion people in Pakistan and India!

16:12 I just noticed this here! The function gun that TSC made is f(x)=9tan(πx). If you plug in e^iπ or e^-iπ as x, it cancels out to 0! This is beyond clever!

17:06 “That is one badass orange stick figure.” Buddy,, you have no idea how right you are

Alan Becker did a commentary on this. According to him, one of his team members is a math guy and pitched this idea to him. He said that he had to just trust that the guy knew the maths because he had no idea what any of these equations meant. Also the white zone is the imaginary plain, thats why it rotates 90 degrees when they enter it. edit After much deliberation in the comments, I have decided that the white zone is in fact "the place where the numbers that aren't numbers but we use them anyway."

Although this is the only math related animation on Alan’s channel, he is arguably one of the most creative animators in the world; using nothing but stick figures who don’t speak no less. This franchise began back in 2006 when Alan was only 17 years old and made a video called “Animator vs. Animation” on Newgrounds just for fun. Now the series as a whole has over five billion views on YouTube and is still going strong with 24+ million subscribers. Alan Becker is the living embodiment of hard work always pays off for those who pursue their passion with all of their being.

He was like "Hello math fans" and I felt very un-addressed.

He condensed 6000 years of civilization into 15 minutes😂

Actually, the function gun is firing the equivalent 1 of the prime series or just "1". When it's hitting the various Euler's Identity targets, they have their values changed from -1 to 0, which cancels them out. This is why you see a 0 form above the targets that Orange hits with the function gun.

The amount of tiny details and maths Easter Eggs, be it simple or compex maths, present in this 12 minute long animation is genuinely insane and this video made me realize just how much I missed from my initial watch.