Intuition in Akshun
The intuition behind every formula
Bringing mathematics to life through animation.
Visual, animated explanations of the ideas behind the math — where a curve moves, a grid transforms, and the formula arrives as a caption for something you have already seen.
Videos
Ideas, animated
Each one takes a single idea and finds the picture that makes it obvious. No prerequisites beyond curiosity.
Series
Topics I explore
Ongoing series, each built so the episodes stand alone but reward being watched in order.
Calculus
9 videosLimits, derivatives and integrals as things that move. The series builds intuition first and formalism second, in the order the ideas were actually discovered.
Linear Algebra
12 videosVectors as arrows, matrices as transformations, determinants as areas. Every abstract definition gets a picture it must agree with.
Probability
7 videosUncertainty made geometric — distributions as shapes, expectation as balance, and inference as the art of narrowing a space of possibilities.
Topology
5 videosWhat survives when you allow bending but forbid tearing. Coffee cups, doughnuts, and the surprisingly rigid logic underneath the jokes.
Number Theory
6 videosPrimes, modular arithmetic and the patterns that hide inside the integers — the oldest questions in mathematics, still refusing to close.
Geometry
8 videosCurvature, symmetry and proof without words. Where a well-chosen diagram does more work than a page of algebra ever could.
Essays
Thinking, written down
Notes on mathematics, intuition, and the craft of turning an idea into an animation.
About
Mathematics, made visible
I'm Akshun — I make animated explanations of mathematical ideas. The kind where a grid transforms, a curve unrolls into a sum of circles, and something that read as an intimidating definition turns out to be describing a picture you can hold in your head.
Most of the work happens long before anything moves: finding the one idea a video is really about, then hunting for the honest path to it. I care a lot about not faking understanding — a beautiful visual that leaves you unable to do anything new is a failure, however pretty it looked.
The craft side is programmatic animation, typography and a great deal of patient timing work. The rest is reading, sketching badly on paper, and asking why anyone suspected the thing might be true in the first place.
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Videos made
6
Topics covered
980+
Minutes of animation
8 yrs
Animating math
Akshun Chaure
Animator of mathematical ideas
Say hello
Get in touch
Have a topic you'd love to see animated, or need help with mathematical animation and visualization for a project? I'd be glad to hear about it.
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