I tried my best to sprinkle the video with hidden math references, let me know which ones you spot! 🚀

This was phenomenal

Wow, this is such a beautiful way to turn math into a story! 😊 I loved watching the Roman Numeral section and X and Y trace out graphs at the end.

I have never been brought to tears by a math video before. I tell you, you've never seen true talent until you've seen someone tasked with making a >10 minute video about "finding the value of x" make a video like this one. I am stunned.

Aw Toby this was magical. I watched with my kids and loved every second. So many little Easter eggs and it all rhymes! Beautiful and almost brought a tear to my eye, wouldn’t be the first time algebra has made me cry. You should feel extremely proud of this.

I'm not crying over a math video, YOU'RE crying over a math video. (But really, this was beautifully done!)

Although I am not very good at studies(especially maths,physics)but I appreciate the people who do understand and love the subjects. Good job on spreading the knowledge you are doing a good work👍👍

The effort put into this looks to be tremendous. Deserves so much more attention, keep it up and I appreciate the creativity. Edit: it has so much rewatch-ability too for attention to details with the animation outside of the puns even that you may miss.

I fell in love with this animation. Fortunately there are still people who actually appreciate math and show everyone else the magic within numbers and variables. Congratulations!!!

X was so special without all that validation & they didn't even know it. 😭😭😭 im not crying, my allergies are flaring up.

This video deserves billion views at least. All my students love it and some ask to watch it again and again. (I still not sure why x's parents are 40 and 42 though.) Fantastic piece of art, thank you!

That was amazing Tibees, it was truly magical

Wow...I'm in awe. Math has been my weakest of weak spots my entire life, and honestly...when I clicked on this video, I was expecting some kind of an animated equation I wouldn't understand, and was ready to tune it all out and just enjoy the visuals. But the amount of creativity, heart, and tenderness that went into making a full story--one that resonates with the heart just as much as the brain--touched me deeply. 🥰 At the end, when Y spoke about variables being more about relationships than value, it clicked something into place, and I now have a desire to try studying math again. Thank you to all who worked on this video! It's a true inspiration!

"Math is not about your value. Math is about relationships." Amazing video! Easily one of the best I've seen.

I don't know anything beyond basic math, has never been my thing so I'm not able to spot math references but I can spot a good and well-written story very well as a writer myself. The stop-motion looks very good and the colors you used are not much like any other I've seen in a stop-motion film, they are very vibrant. The ryhmes give the story a fairytale vibe, I think this short film is going to be a classic in 10 years. We will come back to this beauty to appreciate it's nostalgic wonders in the future and yearn for the past where everything felt more simple and innocent. Well done!

'Knowing your value can be an irrational endeavor. Pi knows theirs but will be chasing it forever' LOVED how you played with your mathematical words here!!

This is so amazing, thank you for your hard work 😁

This is truly amazing! I loved the line : "Math is not about your value. Math is about relationships". It's wonderful!

Unbelievable - Excellent with well placed puns. This will turn any math hater to a math lover. One of the best short films I've ever seen!

All the lines,the poetry + the animation were so much good...I loved it..One of the best storylines

This is an absolutely stunning video. Amazing work, Toby.

The part where X and Y start creating all shapes together literally makes me cry. This is not just a video about maths. This is something philosophical. This is something very comforting, something lovely to watch and hear. Great one.

This is a creative and wonderful story which is masterfully executed. I grew up in the US and as a child enjoyed the “Schoolhouse Rock” series, your production on Finding X rises to the high bar that I have in my mind! Please keep up this worthwhile effort, children and young adults everywhere can benefit from shorts like this that have many layers of life lessons and appreciation for the value we must have in ourselves and others. You are gifted and you share that well.

This is such an underrated video I cannot even begin to describe it! I need a full length movie theatre version now!!!!! Great work Toby keep it up! 😁😁

This is delightful. Congrats to all involved in it. Love the end sequence - opens the door for the ‘X’ cinematic universe.

If this had been mandatory viewing when I was around 10 years old - I wouldn't have dreaded mathematics existentially, fearing continuous failure and wrong solutions ... Thank you so very much for this beautiful new narrative what mathematics is actually about: creative exploring of all the patterns and relations we can think of!🌈🖖

Your passion for math is truly inspiring.

I am sorry. I am so sorry that I can give only one like to this video. You've done such a terrific job! This is what must win artistic awards! all little details are so lovely!

I love how everything plays doubly as a lesson about math and as a lesson about life... and as poetry... and as animation. Also, the roman numerals thinking x=10 was really clever and funny. Amazing work. Also also, I like the sin(x)/x = sin at 9:28 - that is true mathematics.

This is great! I especially like the L'Hospital building; when I was learning and got a case where it applied I would think to myself "this one is sick, it need to go to Le Hôspital"

When you are both an artist and a mathematician..

Man this needs way more views, the deication and patience mixed with hard long work is astonishing. AMazing visuals aswell!

I loved this! You put your heart and soul into this and it really shows!

The line "Since without a value, how can one be valuable?" struck me like a bullet train. Awesome job, this film is really, really fantastic! ❤️ It creatively evinces the fact as complicated as it may be, maths can be artistic, poetic, and transcending, too!

I think this is the most amazing mathematically based story I've seen since discovering Flatland. I will be recommending this to a lot of people for a lot of different reasons.

7:52 heart touching How is this so insanely thought and made?

This is pure gold! Not only the fact that this short film is a very good way to increase the interest in mathematics to those who are just starting to learn, like children, but it also has a really great message about the value that someone can give to himself. And it's great to see a lot of math easter eggs, the animation is amazing too... Congratulations Toby!!

Wow that was amazing!! I appreciated every math pun!

one of the most wholesome things ive seen in a while

That was incredible! I got all teary-eyed at the end lol! A wonderful way of expression. Love it! You got my subscription 🚀

As a calc student who's dealing w identity issues this is literally so cute I love all the little references and the animation I love it omg 😭

*To find X, you first have to understand Y.* What a beautifully made short film!

Why am I crying at this? Beautiful, simply beautiful

Never ever crossed my mind that I would be inspired by any story related to math at any point in my life. Boy was I glad to be wrong! What a beautifully put story and presentation.

Stunning short, a brilliant allegory to a sense of belonging. Finding value is a hard endeavour, it's scary to feel lost but it's a grandiose joy to be found. Can't wait for the sequel: "X in the World of Z - A new Dimension" 😊

I'll be listing all the references I find here. If there are any more or any that are wrong, please let me know! I'm only 11 so I'm bound to make some mistakes. 0:20 ; • Cartesian Court is a reference to the Cartesian Plane • L'hospital is a reference to L'hospitals rule 0:30 ; • The twins are labeled as 1^2 • 2 is the successor of 1 ( 1 + 1 ) • 3 is the successor of 2 ( 2 + 1 ) • The background has the Towers of Hanoi when it comes to x. ( There's also a figure on the window that I forgot. ) 1:10 ; • 1729 is known as the taxicab number, also known as the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of 2 different cubes, in 2 different ways • δ ( Delta ) is used to denote a change in calculus. • π ( Pi ) is the ratio between a circle's circumference and diameter. • The rollercoaster actually shows integration or finding the area under the curve. ( took me a moment to realize...) 1:30 ; • The painting has a parabola. • The flowers are addition and multiplication symbols instead, but I'm assuming multiplication because, 'times table.' • The Klein bottle. 1:53 ; • The painting has a cubic. • The bowl has knots and crosses. 2:15 ; • The painting has either a parabola or a cosh x function. • The game of life papers on the desk ( I think ) 2:20 ; • The sin/cos wave on the sign... ( this is the holy grail of all math dad jokes. ) 2:40 ; • A problem from the JEE advanced on the right paper. • 42 studying the unit circle on the complex plane. 2:45 ; • 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + .... infinity = [cut off the paper] (x is an integration, so 42 is doing summation, is my interpretation) • sin x / x = sin 3:30 ; • X landed on the island of the Roman Numerals. 3:40 ; • The volcano has a pinball-looking machine ( I forgot the term- ) 3:50 ; • M is the main statue as it is the highest value in roman numerals. 4:05 ; • X is 10 in Roman Numerals, so it got assigned number 10. 4:30; • The shield on the left has Pi, the one on the left has Σ ( Sigma ) denoting the summation of a pattern. 4:45 ; • X > V ( 10 is greater than 5, therefore in the hierarchy, X has a higher role than V. ) 5:10 ; • X doesn't know its value yet, so it can change into any value, correct or wrong 5:50 ; • Each number for each subset of math is assigned a value from the Fibonacci numbers, 1597 is the 17th number of the sequence. 6:25 ; • The unit circle on the abacus door. 6:50 ; • The giant infinity in the background. • Many prominent figures in math can be seen, such as the natural log, the nullity, the golden ratio, and 0. 7:20 ; • Tried doing a google search for acutius and obtusius, but got nothing, so it must be a reference to Acute and Obtuse. 7:50 ; • Another set of prominent math figures, such as pi ( again again ), Euler's number, i, and k. 8:15 ; • Reference to the fact that any ellipse, circle, or line on the cartesian plane can be shown by equations using x and y. And those are all I could find!

Thank you for creating this. My 7 year old son asks to listen to it every night before he sleeps.

Omg this is so good, not only do you have an obvious talent for math, but storytelling and representation as well! I hope you’ll make more like these!!

The stop-motion is delightful! Congrats Toby, this is a work of art 🎨

This literally made me cry. So good, so beautiful. Amazing work Tibees and all other contributors. The future of math is inspiring! A possible sequel: “Finding Z”, because why should we stick to a 2d plane, when a 3D one is far more insane!

Thank you for creating this special video - Found your channel recently, and I find it really meaningful and refreshing. Thank you for inspiring and reminding of whats important in this whirlwind of a world

Wow, this was oozing with poetry, the poetry of fundamental reality.

that was X-traordinarily mathemagical! kudos to the whole team!

It brought tears to my eyes. A really moving story, with more than math hidden in it. Great stuff. Well done.

This is one of the best math narrative videos I've ever seen!!! You did such an amazing job with it

Such a deep and significant work! Thanks to everyone who effort.

As X hasn't a defined value yet… I have no words to describe how impressed I am.

My god, there is meaning with layers of meaning on top of layers of meaning, under so many more layers of meaning. It's like a classic story with cutting-edge topics, completely brilliant.

That this doesn't have more views is criminal

This is such a sweet, well-crafted story that is made with so much care that I almost wanted to cry. I’ll definitely show this to my little cousin.

I'm truly amazed! Not only the story itself was really good, but the animation is outstanding! I like it how universal the meaning is, and that you can think of math as about our lives. That everyone is different and sometimes it's hard to find ourselves. Maybe we just need to understand that it doesn't matter who we are, because we are always important and crucial. There cannot be mathematics without x, and so there cannot be world without you.

Hello Toby! I don’t believe I’ve ever commented on one of your videos, but this time I’ve decided I’m going to. This mathematical short film was AMAZING. I haven’t always been a “math person.” I’ve always only scratched the surface of mathematics, but after subscribing to your channel, I discovered the wonders math and science, as well the beauty of their simplicity. My whole life, I’ve always felt like I haven’t found my purpose in life, and without one I “had no value.” This is why I connected to x so much. It’s unknown, but when you think about it, x can be anything and do so much. Your video reminded me that it’s okay not knowing my value or purpose. After watching this, I connected to math on a personal level, and I love it even more. Thank you so much! I love your content and keep it up! 😁😁👍😊

What a creative and unique way to explore the beauty of mathematics! 'Finding X' had me hooked from start to finish, and I came away feeling inspired and motivated to learn more about this fascinating subject. Thank you for sharing this wonderful short film.

Speechless and...SUSCRIBED!!! You guys are living miracles. Here a Calculus Teacher in an Engineering School. My students will see this next year.

I'm seriously begging for the KZfaq algorithm to promote this.

Loved it. M-peror made me laugh. "Math is about relationships" is a great message that will make people pause and think. The rhyming was terrific.

Wow, this is so great. Thank you Tibees for all the work you put into this wonderful colorful mathmatical narrated master piece!

Wow Toby, I didn’t expect to be so moved by a math video. Utterly beautiful ❤️

This is so cool i wished we had something like this when i was in school learning about finding x, it would've definitely made it so much cooler and interesting to learn, kids today are so lucky to have so many cool resources for learning! this was so well done and written, congrats to all the animators and writers, such a beautiful piece of art and education!

these are one of the videos that are just pure gold. really enjoyed watching, thanks Tibees!

Dang! There were so many math puns and references scattered through this video, the creativity you used to put it all fittingly together into the story… Genius! Brought back the memories of when I took calculus in HS (my favorite topic). Awesome work Tibes 👏

Hey Toby! I wanted to comment on this video, as I haven't commented on any video for the past few months and that this video deserves it the most. Simply put, this is one of the most beautiful and inspirational short films I've ever seen. Math is still my Achilles' Heel, but watching this film made me even more determined to find X whenever I solve equations or functions of any kind. You always keep inspiring youngsters like me into becoming interested in mathematics and appreciating the beauty of it. Thank you so much for this video and much love from Seattle!

Wow, this story, all this work, is incredible! I can't remember a better and more beautiful way of expressing, what math is really all about. Hope you'll consider to make some sequel. Greetings from the other side of the globe (Poland:).

Wow, watched this on a whim but suprisingly wonderful. "Do you know your value? Y nodded, replying and so shall you"... The art is so cute! The expressions are so well done! This should be shown in schools.

So Many easter eggs like the Ramanujan Harday Number, Jee ADV 2016 ROT question and many more the level of perfectionism is just god damm amazing.

I could feel the effort of Tibees and the team in every second of the animation , the story is phenomenal, this could be a series or even an entire movie that would be amazing for children. I want to show this so badly to my math teacher, for her to find the references hiding in every corner of the short film uwu You are amazing Tibees, and congratulations to you and the team 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

This looks incredible. My congratulations to you and all those who worked on this project.

This isn't even a film, this is straight up poetry.

this is sooo good! we need a full series of these!

The amount of references and hidden gems in this is outrageous! Absolutely loving it! ❤

An animated poem so witty and unique, I thought to myself, that this is très chic. Very well done, and a great story too, although there were no clothes, not even a shoe. I watched to the end through the tears and all, with one last praise for you, magnifique!

It was so beautiful, all of it! Thanks for all the involved on the video!

This is way to good for a just a KZfaq video! Thank you very much for shareing and opening this crazy narrative approach on math!

Why has this only 1k views in an hour. This should be nominated for a prestigious short film award oslt

This is so well made! I will definitely watch it again to try to find out all of the hidden math references in it 😆

I don’t comment on videos at all but all I would like to say for this one is this is beautiful puts a lot into place. I shared this with all my math friends. Thank you for this

THIS IS SIMPLY AWESOME. Beautiful, beautiful animations. Absolutely loved it.

I can tell this is such a labor of love. It is so well made from top to bottom and I love every second of it ✖️❤️

Dude the production in this is incredible! Writing, music, animation and creativity!!!! So inspiring :)

Absolutely wonderful Toby. You and your crew are to be applauded. Thanks for all the time and creativity you have put into this. I know it was extremely hard but can you do some more one day? 😅

This is the best short film I have ever seen..

This is amazing. I love math and I’m curious to solve all of these easter eggs. I enjoyed the part in which x took on the identity of i to escape and the part in which x and y form a line, circle and eclipse. Well done Tibees!

This piece of art is beyond amazing. Can't even fathom the effort this must have taken. You have created a masterpieces worth all the time that went into this. Simply brilliant loved every second of it . XoXo

this is such a gem tibees. Well done!! hope it blows up and gets the recognition it deserves

This is beautiful. A very touching story. What an amazing project.

It was so lovely with all the hard work, I got literal chills around the end. Impressed by all the smartness in your work, I decide to share it with all my friends. I really loved all the math references like the fibonacci numbers as the pages of the ancient book. You gained all my respect with this piece of master art and it ain't going around anywhere from my heart. I can now understand how difficult it was to make all lines rhyming.

This was so amazing, Toby! I study in grade 7 which is why I wasn't able to grasp every reference to maths in the video, but IT WAS SO GREAT! Also, sorry for being here so late. I wasn't watching KZfaq for a long time :)

You, Toby, are an amazing woman. Loved the video as I have loved all of your videos. I look through your windows and see the kindness, gentleness and love the each one of us should strive for. Selfishly I am glad you continued your journey on KZfaq. Cheers! 😊

This is a masterpiece! I’ll be coming back to watch many times. Congratulations to you and your entire team! Okay - I admit I felt a little silly for crying - but after reading the comments, I know I’ve found my people 😁

I had to stop at 6:56, I feel like you’re whispering at my soul. I never thought I’d hear someone else talk about it so beautifully and elegant like you did. Your references of the hidden one and atum-ra are very special ❤️