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What Grant Sanderson thinks about creativity

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Mathematics explainer, creator of the YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown.

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Grant Sanderson has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingFeeling that one could have discovered a mathematical result oneself is a better measure of deep understanding than simply verifying that it must be true.

    Their wordsand the reason is that this more closely gets at what deep understanding means to me than simply asking "what must be true?"

    ↗The last IMO problem AI could not solve3blue1brown.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece

  3. Our readingSome mathematical proofs contain the seeds of their own discovery.

    Their wordsSome proofs contain the seeds of their own discovery, but this problem was not like that.

    ↗The last IMO problem AI could not solve3blue1brown.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece