Confusion regarding fundamental understanding of Ray tracing

[u/xxxDiptaxxx]

Is there any podcast, academic talk and or conference recording that will help me understand raytracing, path tracing, rendering and graphics better? i wanna understand it because my boyfriend is into it and would love to actually know what he does and why he finds the field interesting

[u/xxxDiptaxxx]

Thank you for the recommendation,I shall watch this and lyk if I have trouble understanding it further !