You Asked for Graph Theory. I’m Going All In.

I’m creating The Palindrome’s most ambitious video yet. Become a paid subscriber and be part of it.

Hey!

I’m working on something massive.

This year, I went all-in on video, and currently, I’m working on my biggest project yet: a comprehensive course on graph theory, illustrated with beautiful visuals. (The working title is “Graph Theory for Visual Learners”, which is not an accident.) It’s going to be the longest, most detailed, and highest-quality piece of content I’ve ever created for The Palindrome. The ultimate introduction to graph theory.

You have asked for this video a lot, and I finally listened.

To bring a project of this scale to life, I need your support. I’m launching a special campaign for Paid Subscribers and Founding Members. If you’ve been thinking about supporting The Palindrome at the highest level, this is your moment.

Your support helps me make more videos like this, and I would love to thank you in the next one.

Here’s what you’ll get as a Paid Subscriber for this release (and all future ones):

1) Your name in the credits

Your name, highlighted in the thank-you scene of my YouTube videos. This is opt-in, so if you don’t want to appear, no action is needed.

2) Full access to all other Premium benefits:

Go beyond the videos with the full archive: 100+ deep dives on math and machine learning, available in a book format as well. You’ll also get recordings of all our live lectures to explore at your own pace, and community access to connect with fellow learners.

Extra bonuses for Founding Members:

You’ll get everything above, plus:

1) A personal shoutout in the video itself

I’ll feature your name on a special Founding Member thank-you screen and thank you by name in the voiceover.

2) Invitations to private interactive screening events:

You’ll be invited to private, interactive pre-release screenings where we watch the videos together, explore the ideas, and discuss your questions live. Not just an early viewing; a conversation.

The “Graph Theory for Visual Learners” Project

If you are interested in more details about the upcoming video, here’s a quick teaser: the animations from the first couple of minutes. (There’s no voiceover or music yet, they are usually added in the last phases of my workflow.)

I’m making the video in a custom animation framework I built (which I simply call The Palindraw), so the visual quality is truly next level. There are already about 15 minutes of beautiful animations, and let me tell you, they are breathtaking.

Here are the questions I want to answer in this video with the help of graph theory:

• How to optimally navigate in a city?

• How to assemble the human genome by finding Hamiltonian paths in a graph?

• How to plan an attack on the utility infrastructure, and how to prepare against it?

• How can mathematical expressions be represented as graphs, and why should we care?

For instance, I built a graph from the streets and intersections of my hometown, and computed the (length-weighted) centrality of each edge. Red edges are highly central, blue ones are not so much.

Without any traffic data, this map perfectly shows which streets are most painful to navigate during rush hour.

I love graph theory.

If you want a technical overview, here are the exact topics I plan to cover.

• Graphs and their drawings.

• Walks, paths, and connectivity.

• Eulerian paths.

• Cycles and Hamiltonian cycles.

• Breadth-first and depth-first search.

• Trees and spanning trees.

• Graph representations. (Yes, the famous matrices-are-graphs one as well.)

• Centrality.

• Directed and weighted graphs.

• Directed acyclic graphs. (Computational graphs fall into this category.)

• Planar graphs.

• Colorings and matchings.

This video is going to be a milestone for The Palindrome, and I want you to be a core part of it.

See you at the private screening!

Cheers,
Tivadar

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P.S. Spots for the interactive screening will be limited to Founding Members only. Claim your spot today to secure your invitation.