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(This channel used to be called MajorPrep, changed as of January 8th, 2020). I make nerdy and occasionally funny videos. For business inquiries: ZachStarYT@g...

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Responding to comments on my flat earth video 13:28

Responding to comments on my flat earth video

When you ask the internet any math question 6:44

When you ask the internet any math question

How to compress an image with (basic) linear algebra 9:23

How to compress an image with (basic) linear algebra

The first engineer (well, not really) 8:36

The first engineer (well, not really)

The math that proves the Earth isn't flat 15:42

The math that proves the Earth isn't flat

How big is 1 billion? 7:33

How big is 1 billion?

When your friend asks you to engineer the Matrix 7:29

When your friend asks you to engineer the Matrix

Probability is just...really weird 9:20

Probability is just...really weird

Just 3 questions/puzzles that seem obvious but aren't 11:07

Just 3 questions/puzzles that seem obvious but aren't

The History of Engineering (in exactly 20 minutes) 21:07

The History of Engineering (in exactly 20 minutes)

When Isaac Newton discovers gravity (and everything else) 6:15

When Isaac Newton discovers gravity (and everything else)

Probably the weirdest function I encountered as an engineering student 10:25

Probably the weirdest function I encountered as an engineering student

How I wish logistic growth was taught to me in Calc 2 8:49

How I wish logistic growth was taught to me in Calc 2

The intuition behind the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem 11:25

The intuition behind the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem

Why following your compass will (almost) always lead you to the North or South Pole | Math of Maps 10:16

Why following your compass will (almost) always lead you to the North or South Pole | Math of Maps

When you're an engineer in the Star Wars Universe 5:55

When you're an engineer in the Star Wars Universe

Why do Electrical Engineers use imaginary numbers in circuit analysis? 13:08

Why do Electrical Engineers use imaginary numbers in circuit analysis?

The scariest thing you learn in Electrical Engineering | The Smith Chart 9:02

The scariest thing you learn in Electrical Engineering | The Smith Chart

When you're an engineer for the Titan submersible 4:10

When you're an engineer for the Titan submersible

Ranking all 22 engineering classes I took in college 20:00

Ranking all 22 engineering classes I took in college

Each point is connected to its closest neighbor, how many connections can a single point have (max)? 7:13

Each point is connected to its closest neighbor, how many connections can a single point have (max)?

Why shadows (almost) always trace out hyperbolas (but it depends on where you live). 15:43

Why shadows (almost) always trace out hyperbolas (but it depends on where you live).

What are the odds that 3 'random' points on a sphere will form an acute triangle? 9:02

What are the odds that 3 'random' points on a sphere will form an acute triangle?

Engineering jobs in the future (probably) be like... 4:05

Engineering jobs in the future (probably) be like...

How should you arrange 7 water fountains in a mall to minimize the longest possible walk? 9:40

How should you arrange 7 water fountains in a mall to minimize the longest possible walk?

You can always win this game if you go second | An SOS (math olympiad) puzzle 13:29

You can always win this game if you go second | An SOS (math olympiad) puzzle

The Poker Paradox 8:28

The Poker Paradox

The Sierpinski-Mazurkiewicz Paradox (is really weird) 13:03

The Sierpinski-Mazurkiewicz Paradox (is really weird)

Watching a movie (or TV show) with a STEM major be like 5:34

Watching a movie (or TV show) with a STEM major be like

A 1957 Putnam exam problem 8:27

A 1957 Putnam exam problem

Can you always pair an equal number of red and blue points with no intersection? 7:46

Can you always pair an equal number of red and blue points with no intersection?

The Mathematics of the Casino | What people get wrong about gambling 15:44

The Mathematics of the Casino | What people get wrong about gambling

Engineering in movies be like 4:45

Engineering in movies be like

If Saw was a typical engineering student 5:16

If Saw was a typical engineering student

Can you always cover 10 points with 10 equally sized (non-overlapping) coins? 8:11

Can you always cover 10 points with 10 equally sized (non-overlapping) coins?

The applications of hyperbolic trig | Why do we even care about these things? 14:45

The applications of hyperbolic trig | Why do we even care about these things?

How you can solve dice puzzles with polynomials 10:02

How you can solve dice puzzles with polynomials

No you guys, most shapes do not have a center of mass with this property (but some do) 5:42

No you guys, most shapes do not have a center of mass with this property (but some do)

A surprising topological proof - Why you can always cut three objects in half with a single plane 12:47

A surprising topological proof - Why you can always cut three objects in half with a single plane

Teaching myself abstract algebra 14:41

Teaching myself abstract algebra

When you tutor the kid who cheated their way through school #shorts 1:00

When you tutor the kid who cheated their way through school #shorts

Approximations. The engineering way. 13:49

Approximations. The engineering way.

What changes? | A lesson in statistics, incentives, and internet stupidity 16:52

What changes? | A lesson in statistics, incentives, and internet stupidity

Is there (always) a line that passes through exactly 2 points? 9:20

Is there (always) a line that passes through exactly 2 points?

What I've been reading | STEM book recommendations 14:49

What I've been reading | STEM book recommendations

STEM students in non STEM classes be like... 5:37

STEM students in non STEM classes be like...

Random things 10:40

Random things

An inverted pendulum puzzle 12:18

An inverted pendulum puzzle

The Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, a proof from real analysis 13:30

The Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, a proof from real analysis

Teaching myself an upper level pure math course (we almost died) 19:28

Teaching myself an upper level pure math course (we almost died)

The intuition and implications of the complex derivative 14:54

The intuition and implications of the complex derivative

Could you avoid being hit by a laser if you were in a room of mirrors? 11:45

Could you avoid being hit by a laser if you were in a room of mirrors?

A donut is not a sphere | Things you can do on one surface but not the other 9:42

A donut is not a sphere | Things you can do on one surface but not the other

Why imaginary numbers are needed to understand the radius of convergence 8:30

Why imaginary numbers are needed to understand the radius of convergence

Engineering students be like...(Part 2) 6:57

Engineering students be like...(Part 2)

The applications of non-euclidean distance | Metric Spaces 18:43

The applications of non-euclidean distance | Metric Spaces

If the hour and minute hand on a clock look identical, can you always determine the time? 9:46

If the hour and minute hand on a clock look identical, can you always determine the time?

What happens at infinity? - The Cantor set 16:25

What happens at infinity? - The Cantor set

Things get weird at infinity 16:21

Things get weird at infinity

What would we see if we lived on a hypersphere? 12:21

What would we see if we lived on a hypersphere?

We likely live in one of these 18 universes 13:19

We likely live in one of these 18 universes

These changed how I think about higher dimensions 18:54

These changed how I think about higher dimensions

The real world applications of the dot product 12:49

The real world applications of the dot product

This is why you're learning differential equations 18:36

This is why you're learning differential equations

Symmetry Puzzles 10:20

Symmetry Puzzles

It really seems like our universe could be part of a hypersphere, but... it's probably not 16:24

It really seems like our universe could be part of a hypersphere, but... it's probably not

Math and physics can show up when you least expect 7:49

Math and physics can show up when you least expect

Parity Puzzles 12:45

Parity Puzzles

Second Channel Announcement 1:41

Second Channel Announcement

Engineering students be like 4:37

Engineering students be like

What if the universe had a higher dimensional twist in it? 15:44

What if the universe had a higher dimensional twist in it?

This question seems like it requires calculus, but it actually has a much more clever solution 5:00

This question seems like it requires calculus, but it actually has a much more clever solution

Does math belong in the courtroom? 22:41

Does math belong in the courtroom?

A google and amazon interview question with a really clever solution 5:12

A google and amazon interview question with a really clever solution

When your boss always finds extra work for you to do 3:16

When your boss always finds extra work for you to do

Simple, yet counterintuitive mathematics | Why numbers don't always mean what you think 14:42

Simple, yet counterintuitive mathematics | Why numbers don't always mean what you think

Dear linear algebra students, This is what matrices (and matrix manipulation) really look like 16:26

Dear linear algebra students, This is what matrices (and matrix manipulation) really look like

An unexpected application of the harmonic series 7:20

An unexpected application of the harmonic series

Curves we (mostly) don't learn in high school (and applications) 14:00

Curves we (mostly) don't learn in high school (and applications)

The Poisoned Drinks Problem 8:32

The Poisoned Drinks Problem

The Lost Fisherman Problem | What is the most efficient way back to shore? 9:15

The Lost Fisherman Problem | What is the most efficient way back to shore?

Dear all calculus students, This is why you're learning about optimization 16:34

Dear all calculus students, This is why you're learning about optimization

What does mathematical induction really look like? 10:51

What does mathematical induction really look like?

When the FBI had too many fingerprints in storage | The mathematics of image compression 14:19

When the FBI had too many fingerprints in storage | The mathematics of image compression

Dear Calculus 2 Students, This is why you're learning Taylor Series 12:36

Dear Calculus 2 Students, This is why you're learning Taylor Series

Goodbye MajorPrep....(It's Clickbait, just a channel name change) 6:55

Goodbye MajorPrep....(It's Clickbait, just a channel name change)

Random things that will (likely) surprise you 11:51

Random things that will (likely) surprise you

Engineers in math class be like... 7:37

Engineers in math class be like...

I made a (free) linear algebra tool | What I use to make my videos 3:36

I made a (free) linear algebra tool | What I use to make my videos

The applications of eigenvectors and eigenvalues | That thing you heard in Endgame has other uses 23:45

The applications of eigenvectors and eigenvalues | That thing you heard in Endgame has other uses

The intuition behind Fourier and Laplace transforms I was never taught in school 18:00

The intuition behind Fourier and Laplace transforms I was never taught in school

How do complex numbers actually apply to control systems? 16:43

How do complex numbers actually apply to control systems?

The beauty of complex numbers 13:42

The beauty of complex numbers

Engineering professors be like 9:29

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What does the Laplace Transform really tell us? A visual explanation (plus applications) 20:25

What does the Laplace Transform really tell us? A visual explanation (plus applications)

The Mathematics of Signal Processing | The z-transform, discrete signals, and more 29:47

The Mathematics of Signal Processing | The z-transform, discrete signals, and more

The Applications of Matrices | What I wish my teachers told me way earlier 25:16

The Applications of Matrices | What I wish my teachers told me way earlier

The algorithm that started google 13:40

The algorithm that started google

A visibility problem, how many guards are enough? 13:35

A visibility problem, how many guards are enough?

The second most beautiful equation and its surprising applications 22:59

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