First of all, let's deal with the transatlantic thing.

Do I call you Grant Sanderson, Grant Sanderson, Grant Sanderson, Grant Sanderson?

So all of my British relatives call me Grant.

Grant.

So I would have a certain affection if that's the way that you wanted to say things.

I would say Grant, Grant Sanderson.

So you go the aunt and the Sanderson, not the aunt and the Sanderson. Yeah, getting into my Virginia roots, I guess. Okay. But, yeah. All right, I'll try, I'll try for Grant, but I may slip into Grant occasionally. I've never been asked about how to pronounce my name. I've always thought of it as a standard, non-mispronounceable thing.

No, well, as you see, I can mispronounce both of them, so.

I wouldn't consider either a mispronunciation.

Okay.

Hi, I'm Brady Haren, and this is the Numberphile podcast.

You've probably figured out today's guest is a guy called Grant Sanderson.

Grant Sanderson.

Now Grant's the man, the brains and the voice behind Three Blue One Brown.

And if you know what Numberphile is, you probably know what Three Blue One Brown is because it's an incredibly successful brilliant YouTube channel

all about mathematics.

Today I'm going to be talking to Grant about that and about other bits and pieces from

his life and mathematics. But before we get started, the thing I really wanted to establish

is this. Why call the channel three blue, one brown?

I'll start by saying there's two ways of explaining it.

So the first is the very direct.

It's a weird name.

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