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**Winners**
Clear Crystal Conundrums, A Multifaceted Intro to Group Theory
The Lore of Calculus
How Realistic CGI Works (And How To Do It Way Faster)
Percolation: a Mathematical Phase Transition
The Coolest Hat Puzzle
**Honorable mentions**
How to Take the Factorial of Any Number
How are memories stored in neural networks?
The shapes of waves of ships and ducks
Differentiable Programming from Scratch
Researchers Use Group Theory to Speed Up Algorithms — Introduction to Groups
Pleasing Panoramas and Matrix Multiplication
A Tale of Tangent Spheres
Why there are no perfect maps (and why we eat pizza the way we do)
What Lies Between a Function and Its Derivative?
1 Billion is Tiny in an Alternate Universe: Introduction to p-adic Numbers
The Mathematical Problem with Music, and How to Solve It
A Curious Track, or What Bikes Are Hiding From Us
An Inverse Turing Test
What A General Diagonal Argument Looks Like (Category Theory)
Why the Circle encloses the Largest Area | Explained using Hill Climbing
The Amazing Math behind Colors!
An Interactive Guide for Bézier Curves
Does Every Game Have a Winner
A Finite Game of Infinite Rounds
Numberphile's Square-Sum Problem was solved!
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