Grant Sanderson
Also known as 3Blue1Brown, 3b1b
Math educator behind the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel and the Manim animation engine.
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- Grant Sanderson is an American math educator who runs 3Blue1Brown, a YouTube channel that explains mathematics visually.
- He wrote Manim, the Python animation engine behind its videos.
- He started both as side projects while studying at Stanford.
- After a year at Khan Academy he moved to 3Blue1Brown full time at the end of 2016.
Key facts
- Education
- Stanford University, bachelor's in mathematics, 20152
- 3Blue1Brown
- Uploaded the channel's first video on 4 March 20152
- Full time
- Made 3Blue1Brown his primary focus at the end of 20161
- Manim
- Wrote the open source Python animation engine, begun in early 20152
- Khan Academy
- From 2015 to 2016, made videos, articles and exercises on multivariable calculus2
- MIT
- Co-created and lectured the course Introduction to Computational Thinking in 20202
- A Trip to Infinity
- Contributed visuals to the documentary, which won an Emmy for graphic design and art direction1
Roles
Before
Part of until 2016
Khan Academy (made multivariable calculus videos, articles and exercises)
Connections
Links
- 3blue1brown.com (opens 3blue1brown.com)
- YouTube (opens youtube.com)
- X (opens x.com)
- Bluesky (opens bsky.app)
- 3Blue1Brown on Substack (opens 3blue1brown.substack.com)
- GitHub (opens github.com)
- Wikipedia (opens en.wikipedia.org)
- Where they publish (ppll) (opens ppll.app)
- What they believe (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
- What they recommend (rcmnd) (opens rcmnd.app)
Sources
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