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For whatever reason, when I first started 3blue1brown, I also found myself jotting down silly math poems on the side. Math is often most naturally expressed with symbols or pictures, and words are a more tricky medium, so something about the added constraint of making those words adhere to certain meters or rhyming structures felt like a fun puzzle, albeit an unabashedly cheesy one. After I made the first couple of 3blue1brown videos, and put together a website with some vague sense that that's what I was supposed to do, I tossed up the poems to that site while I was at it. Even if they seem a bit strange now, I still find a certain charm in leaving them here as a remnant of that early-2015 mindset associated with trying something wacky and throwing it up online, which was the same mindset which led to the channel in the first place. Take two points on a circle, and draw a line straight through. The space that was encircled is divided into two. To these points add a third one, which gi

Math Poetry | 3Blue1Brown M a t h P o e t r y Meditative musings on math Grant Sanderson Mar 3, 2015 (Note from many years later) For whatever reason, when I first started 3Blue1Brown, I also found myself jotting down silly math poems on the side. Math is often most naturally expressed with symbols or pictures, and words are a more tricky medium, so something about the added constraint of making those words adhere to certain meters or rhyming structures felt like a fun puzzle, albeit an unabashedly cheesy one. After I made the first couple of 3Blue1Brown videos, and put together a website with

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