Best YouTube videos on Maths & Computer Science
4 videos our team picked as worth your time. Paste any of them into YouTube Collector for the full transcript, a chaptered summary, and search across everything you save.
The Birth of Silicon Valley: The Hippies That Built the First PC | Full Documentary
How a stretch of orchards became the centre of the world: the story of Silicon Valley, the misfits and visionaries who built it, and the chips that changed everything. (Published 19 Aug 2025)
Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry (Marcus du Sautoy)
What is symmetry, really, and why is it one of the deepest ideas in mathematics, linking snowflakes to string theory? Du Sautoy takes you inside group theory and the strange object called "the Monster." (Published 23 Jun 2011)
How the Allies Cracked the Enigma Code | Bletchley Park with Dan Snow
How a team of mathematicians, linguists and chess champions at Bletchley Park cracked Nazi Germany's "unbreakable" Enigma cipher, inventing ideas that gave birth to the modern computer. Told by historian Dan Snow. (Published 13 Dec 2024)
Alan Turing: The Scientist Who Saved The Allies | Man Who Cracked The Nazi Code | Timeline
The tragic genius who shortened a world war: a cinematic life of Alan Turing, the man who cracked Enigma and dreamed up the modern computer, then was destroyed for who he was. (Published 22 Mar 2022)