The Map of Mathematics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Math Fit Together

in Math | April 8th, 2025 3 Comments

Back in Decem­ber, you hope­ful­ly thor­ough­ly immersed your­self in The Map of Physics, an ani­mat­ed video–a visu­al aid for the mod­ern age–that mapped out the field of physics, explain­ing all the con­nec­tions between clas­si­cal physics, quan­tum physics, and rel­a­tiv­i­ty.

You can’t do physics with­out math. Hence we now have The Map of Math­e­mat­ics. Cre­at­ed by physi­cist Dominic Wal­li­man, this video explains “how pure math­e­mat­ics and applied math­e­mat­ics relate to each oth­er and all of the sub-top­ics they are made from.” Watch the new video above. You can buy a poster of the map here. And you can down­load a ver­sion for edu­ca­tion­al use here.

If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newslet­ter, please find it here. It’s a great way to see our new posts, all bun­dled in one email, each day.

If you would like to sup­port the mis­sion of Open Cul­ture, con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion to our site. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your con­tri­bu­tions will help us con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing the best free cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al mate­ri­als to learn­ers every­where. You can con­tribute through Pay­Pal, Patre­on, and Ven­mo (@openculture). Thanks!

Relat­ed Con­tent 

Com­plex Math Made Sim­ple With Engag­ing Ani­ma­tions: Fouri­er Trans­form, Cal­cu­lus, Lin­ear Alge­bra, Neur­al Net­works & More

John Coltrane Draws a Pic­ture Illus­trat­ing the Math­e­mat­ics of Music

The Ele­gant Math­e­mat­ics of Vit­ru­vian Man, Leonar­do da Vinci’s Most Famous Draw­ing: An Ani­mat­ed Intro­duc­tion

The Math Behind Beethoven’s Music

Free Online Math Cours­es

 


by | Permalink | Comments (3) |

Sup­port Open Cul­ture

We’re hop­ing to rely on our loy­al read­ers rather than errat­ic ads. To sup­port Open Cul­ture’s edu­ca­tion­al mis­sion, please con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion. We accept Pay­Pal, Ven­mo (@openculture), Patre­on and Cryp­to! Please find all options here. We thank you!


Comments (3)
You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
  • Lesmic says:
    April 9, 2025 at 4:37 am

    This is most inter­est­ing and bel­wider­ing.
    How were we able to devel­op all these the­o­ries with­out help from some exter­nal help or influ­ence.
    Isn’t this some­how proof the we are not alone.
    Are we not intan­gled in a web of con­scious­ness uni­ty?
    Some­how indi­vid­ual “genius­es” man­aged to con­nect to a high­er con­scious­ness and caught a glimpse of an answer to a prob­lem he was work­ing on.
    Tru­ly mes­mer­iz­ing!
    Bril­liant arti­cle!
    🙏

    Reply
  • ROBERTO says:
    April 9, 2025 at 2:48 pm

    No hay base para supon­er una *red de unidad de con­cien­cia. Es posi­ble que no este­mos solos pero no existe evi­den­cia ningu­na sobre ello. ¿Por qué no podríamos desar­rol­lar son inter­ven­ción exter­na. ES LO QUE HICIMOS Y SEGUIMOS HACIENDO. Los genios son sim­ple­mente genios por usar la razón y NO por usar el pen­samien­to mági­co-reli­gioso. No9 existe la menor evi­den­cia de ningu­na con­cien­cia supe­ri­or. Dicen que el ladrón ve a todos de su mis­ma condi­ción. Algo pare­ci­do sucede aquí: el reli­gioso cree que todos ten­emos creen­cias y fan­tasías como lo hace él.

    Reply
  • Eric Krieg says:
    April 11, 2025 at 12:44 pm

    This is just a won­der­ful thing par­tic­u­lar­ly for autis­tic peo­ple who both tend to love math and visu­al­ize Con­cepts or oppor­tu­ni­ty space ina spe­cial man­ner. It is my hope that smart kids capa­ble of under­stand­ing Dominick­’s pages will build a great base of foun­da­tion­al knowl­edge across biol­o­gy, math, physics, chem­istry Etc. For humankind to be able to make it through the oth­er side of a dif­fi­cult time in our his­to­ry we need young peo­ple to ful­ly arm them­selves with a wide under­stand­ing of the knowl­edge we have so far.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Quantcast