https://www.youtube.com/@tibees
https://tobyhendy.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Hendy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf
I first became aware of mathematical physicist Toby Hendy’s YouTube videos with her series of “Flatland”-like videos discussing 2D creatures living in a 2D world and how we 3D folk might mess with them, and how in turn we might be messed with by 4D creatures. The application of such reasoning to “relative fundamental force strengths” is also hinted at. I next enjoyed her charming “Bob Ross”-style ultramellow Zen-like introduction to imaginary numbers, logarithms, and calculus (imagine a yoga cooldown monologue from a mathematical physics professor). She also has a nice collection of short discussions of famous mathematicians’ and physicists’ exam scores, report cards, dissertations, and other artifacts (e.g., Einstein’s divorce papers) thoroughly establishing that failure is part of life, even for (perhaps especially for) famous historical figures. Tibees is particularly strong at gently and comically humanizing the study of physics and mathematics and reassuring...