Laplacian intuition

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    A visual understanding for how the Laplace operator is an extension of the second derivative to multivariable functions.

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  • @srgkzy1294
    @srgkzy1294 7 лет назад +1144

    That voice... makes me feel safe with math

  • @ryanthomas9693
    @ryanthomas9693 4 года назад +75

    Literally got more intuition from a 5 min video than scouring through a myriad of textbooks back in my college days. It's interesting to note that the Physicists' notation for the Laplacian is nabla^2, which maybe makes it a bit more confusing because it implies it's the second order gradient or could imply the curl of gradient, etc.

    • @sumdumbmick
      @sumdumbmick 2 года назад

      you do know that multiplication can be rendered in English as 'of', right?
      3 * 4 apples = 12 apples -> three groups of 4 apples is 12 apples
      and thus a second order derivative, which is the derivative of a derivative is validly derivative * derivative, or derivative^2. and the only difference between a generic derivative and the differential is that a nabla indicates is that it's the sum of all n partial derivatives over an n-space. so the second order differential is nabla of nabla, or nabla * nabla, or nabla^2.
      the reason it appears to be the same as the second order gradient is because it is. it's the sum of the partial derivatives... which is the second order gradient, and the laplacian, they're two names for the same thing, and thus it's actually not confusing. and curl is notated differently, since it's the cross product. if you separate it out as nabla dot nabla, then it might be ambiguous as divergence of the gradient, but with very little effort you can see for yourself that it's actually the same thing anyway, so again... what are you confused about, exactly?

    • @sumdumbmick
      @sumdumbmick 2 года назад

      see @0:52
      he literally shows you that the laplacian is the divergence of the gradient and it remains on screen for the entire rest of the video.
      how in the world are you confused, and how did anybody like your comment that you're confused? it's not remotely confusing.

    • @notstarboard9792
      @notstarboard9792 Год назад +3

      ​@@sumdumbmick 1) Chill out. Just because something isn't confusing to you doesn't mean everyone needs to agree.
      2) The Laplacian is not the same as a second-order gradient. The Laplacian is the *divergence* of a gradient, which gives a scalar. The gradient is a vector, so you would expect a second-order gradient to also be a vector / matrix. Ryan is right that the notation obscures the meaning of the term. Leaving it as del dot del would be a lot more clear.
      3) The eye-rolling-ness of appealing to English grammar to criticize a benign internet comment aside, multiplication and "of" are not always the same thing in this context. Let's say f(x) = x^3. The derivative of the derivative of f(x) is 6x. The derivative of f(x) times the derivative of f(x) is 9x^4. This line of reasoning is only going to get us into trouble.

    • @metheewatchakittikorn4796
      @metheewatchakittikorn4796 8 месяцев назад

      I agree definitely.

  • @wtflks
    @wtflks 7 лет назад +492

    3blue one brown????

    • @ANJALISINGH-yp4tr
      @ANJALISINGH-yp4tr 6 лет назад +32

      yup .....100% sure

    • @davidwiedemann9926
      @davidwiedemann9926 6 лет назад +14

      Yes

    • @drakefire1800
      @drakefire1800 6 лет назад +11

      ya dude. he is awesome. love his videos. he uses right brain thinking.

    • @alial-ansari8815
      @alial-ansari8815 5 лет назад +6

      Yes that’s him 😂👌🏻❤️

    • @lLlILILw
      @lLlILILw 4 года назад +4

      He did say in an interview that he taught in khan academy or something before youtube

  • @czarlito_
    @czarlito_ 5 лет назад +105

    Welcome, all you travelers, coming from Partial Differential Equations! Praised be 3B1B!

    • @lopkobor6916
      @lopkobor6916 4 года назад +3

      I'm from the video "Divergence and Curl" ( also from 3b1b )

  • @jlpsinde
    @jlpsinde 5 лет назад +16

    This is heaven on Earth for someone like me that learned this 24 years ago and just now understand!

  • @e1123581321345589144
    @e1123581321345589144 2 года назад +4

    I swear to god, I've been reading various pages for days to understand what this operator does. You made it cristal clear in a few minutes

  • @ummwho8279
    @ummwho8279 8 лет назад +46

    You guys are amazing, thank you for publishing these! Multivariable calc is so much more understandable now!

  • @MattiLargeWorld
    @MattiLargeWorld 4 года назад +4

    The intuition for the laplacian is exquisite I am very glad that you’re getting a ton of recognition.

    • @funkdrunk
      @funkdrunk 9 месяцев назад

      with your young face you risk getting some detractors here. Check some neighboring comments for Dunning or Obama. Hilarious. I agree with the intuition part. First time in my life I understand that stuff! :)

  • @oscarsharkslayer
    @oscarsharkslayer 6 лет назад +32

    I could never understand Laplace operators at school. I hated them. Today, my 7 year old kid looks at this video and says: "it is simple, why did you not understand?". Yes! This is a new wave of learning. Thank you Sal and thank you Blue Brown. You redefine learning!

    • @heavennoes
      @heavennoes 3 года назад +4

      as a 10 yr old, he makes everything hyper - simple.

    • @suveermanj1001
      @suveermanj1001 11 месяцев назад +8

      My son just got out of my wife's womb guys and he also said it's so easy,...thanks Obama.

    • @funkdrunk
      @funkdrunk 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@suveermanj1001are you mocking? the statement? And Obama at the same time? Kids have a knack to find their own interpretation of stuff presented in visual form. Perhaps they forget in a day, but they comprehend more than adults think

    • @DaBestNub
      @DaBestNub 9 месяцев назад +3

      Dunning Kruger effect go crazy

    • @funkdrunk
      @funkdrunk 9 месяцев назад

      @@DaBestNub Dunning Kruger effect MYTH go crazy

  • @harshchikorde9495
    @harshchikorde9495 7 лет назад +24

    please make a vedio on LAPLACE TRANSFORM

  • @mahsanafisi2937
    @mahsanafisi2937 4 года назад +4

    Thank you soooo much for amazing illustration and for making it so easy to understand.

  • @victorvalencia6466
    @victorvalencia6466 4 года назад +4

    3blue1brown should voice all math videos on the internet

  • @quantaali543
    @quantaali543 5 лет назад +3

    superb ... finally, I understand the concept of gradient, divergence and Laplace's equation.

  • @Luisgar1234
    @Luisgar1234 2 года назад +2

    I was saying today why doesn’t 3blue have a video on laplace… one trip to the search bar later and I found this hidden gem.

  • @eduardoandrescontrerasrome6703
    @eduardoandrescontrerasrome6703 Год назад +1

    Omg god, this video is sublime. I am currently taking an Electromagnetism class so we constantly use this concepto of the Laplace equation but I never really understood what it meant.

  • @priyocoutinho
    @priyocoutinho 2 года назад

    Nice explanation...it will help us get a picture of what we are doing when we solve laplacians...

  • @othmaneelhanchi4451
    @othmaneelhanchi4451 5 лет назад +3

    Brilliant explanation !

  • @pavi512k
    @pavi512k 5 лет назад +2

    Please make a video on laplacian operator in spherical and cylindrical coordinates

  • @jh2519
    @jh2519 4 года назад +1

    Awesome, this helps with my electrical prospecting class.

  • @EssamSat
    @EssamSat 5 лет назад +33

    Anybody here from 3blue one brown PDE video ?

  • @fahim1943
    @fahim1943 3 года назад

    Revisiting all of this cause its beena while I didnt touch Multivariable Calc and its still so fascinating and I realised how much I discovred more even if I watched this already time ago

  • @mitalpattni1977
    @mitalpattni1977 6 лет назад +1

    Please do a video on spectral clustering or graph theory!

  • @inquisitiverakib5844
    @inquisitiverakib5844 2 года назад +1

    solid concept
    lucid explanation 😍😍

  • @hanyiliu3332
    @hanyiliu3332 2 года назад +1

    This is amazing.

  • @vinbo2232
    @vinbo2232 4 года назад +1

    Thank you, great intuitive explanation

  • @vector8310
    @vector8310 3 года назад

    When I click on a Khan Academy video I pray it's a 3B 1B. Ghee was born for this.

  • @cory99998
    @cory99998 3 года назад +1

    Ty, im going to try to create a 2D gravity / space-time simulation using this

  • @user-or7ji5hv8y
    @user-or7ji5hv8y 3 года назад +1

    What a great explanation. Thank you

  • @technosapien330
    @technosapien330 6 месяцев назад

    this man is getting me through grad school

  • @JohnVKaravitis
    @JohnVKaravitis 3 года назад

    Difference between Laplace and Poisson equations? One equals zero, the other does not, right?

  • @anonymoustraveller2254
    @anonymoustraveller2254 7 лет назад +10

    Oh my god! You really exist.

  • @BAD_LS
    @BAD_LS 7 лет назад +2

    Well explained, so far! Even for a german, thanks!

  • @thevegg3275
    @thevegg3275 6 лет назад +1

    Wrt the vectors representing the gradient...are these colored differently to represent magnitude of the vectors? Is it also a convention to use longer vectors to represent vectors with larger magnitudes? I prefer color coding since the smaller and more numerous the vectors are, the better the visualization of what they represent. Changing length of vectors would take up space which could be better used to increase the count of vectors used.

  • @williamlee0
    @williamlee0 4 года назад

    Will the learner notice that you would have to flip the blue blanket inside-out for the water droplet analogy to make sense? Water does not flow uphill to pool at the peak of a hill.

  • @ProfeARios
    @ProfeARios 4 года назад +1

    Great lesson!!!

  • @chrysostomoschadjiminas6217
    @chrysostomoschadjiminas6217 3 года назад

    Since we are talking about the direction of steepest descent instead of ascent, shouldn't the gradient vectors point the opposite direction? Shouldn't the sources be sinks and vice versa?

  • @batuskovichuman6886
    @batuskovichuman6886 2 месяца назад

    All my beloved teacher

  • @dudewhat9329
    @dudewhat9329 4 года назад +2

    this is awesome, thank you :D

  • @Gaming_station93
    @Gaming_station93 3 года назад

    No copyright issue from 3blues1brown?

  • @pratikbari1714
    @pratikbari1714 7 лет назад +1

    Great explaination

  • @CGKittenz
    @CGKittenz 4 года назад +1

    finally understood this!

  • @yizhang7027
    @yizhang7027 3 года назад +1

    Why am I in tears after understanding this

  • @bunkerputt
    @bunkerputt 6 лет назад +2

    I just love talking about the Laplacian. It's such an edgy subject.

  • @BatistaR0X
    @BatistaR0X 7 лет назад +64

    Instead of expecting Khan, this guy sounds like 3blue1brown?

    • @error.418
      @error.418 6 лет назад +4

      yep, that's 3b1b

    • @biggbuck9535
      @biggbuck9535 5 лет назад

      In fact, it is the same guy 3blue1brown. He decided to do khan just for a bit outside of his patreon channel

    • @That_One_Guy...
      @That_One_Guy... 4 года назад +1

      @@biggbuck9535 He worked at khan academy before doing his channel

  • @manojkumar-cb3wf
    @manojkumar-cb3wf 4 года назад

    i kindly request you to arrange the videos order wise .

  • @AmeerulIslam
    @AmeerulIslam 6 лет назад

    is there any relationship between laplacian and laplace transform?

  • @AssassinGrudge
    @AssassinGrudge 7 лет назад

    is this difference from the laplace transform because i was trying to understand the spherical harmonic. but instead of searching for Laplacian function i searched the laplace transform and i spend like 2 days learning it is it a waist ?

  • @yeungpakming
    @yeungpakming Месяц назад

    I was thinking oh no 3b1b didn't make a video about laplacian, maybe i should just check out this video... nice

  • @amandhakal8939
    @amandhakal8939 2 года назад

    So, to conclude,
    "At lowest point of any field, laplacian gives maximum value and at highest point of any field, lapacian gives minimum value",
    am I right?

  • @Raptured_and_back
    @Raptured_and_back 6 лет назад

    Not kind of. It is a minimum if f '' > 0 and maximum if f '' < 0, be it a local or extreme.

  • @annashchukina3768
    @annashchukina3768 3 года назад

    thank you so much

  • @OnlyOneesWhoKnow
    @OnlyOneesWhoKnow 6 лет назад

    Hello, Thank you so much!
    How would I intuit the Bi-Laplacian ? What's the gradient(3) of the divergence(2) if the divergence(2) of the gradient(1) characterizes already if a point is on a pedestal or in a gap?

  • @अण्वायुवरीवर्त

    I'll be really greedy this time,
    What is the software that u used
    Plzz seems like a fun way to learn things (intuitively)

    • @Pogosoke
      @Pogosoke 5 лет назад

      Lawliet L i think he Programms it himself, same with the animations on his channel

    • @reemashrestha9718
      @reemashrestha9718 4 года назад

      In 3B1B, he uses Manim: an open-source code that he created himself.

  • @kvamshi4561
    @kvamshi4561 5 лет назад +5

    Those who're wondering whether this guy is 3Blue1Brown guy..
    Hell yes! He is the same guy left khan academy and doing his own videos

    • @axelmeramas976
      @axelmeramas976 4 года назад +1

      he didn't left khan academy, is still working

    • @kvamshi4561
      @kvamshi4561 4 года назад

      @@axelmeramas976 OK

  • @trip_on_earth
    @trip_on_earth 3 года назад

    please make a video on your channel 3b1b of Laplace transform

  • @sergiolucas38
    @sergiolucas38 2 года назад

    great video, yhanks :)

  • @BraaiEngineer
    @BraaiEngineer 4 года назад

    Link so follow-up video, please?

  • @benjaminbrady2385
    @benjaminbrady2385 5 лет назад +2

    I recognise Grants voice anywhere!

  • @tahaabujrad7806
    @tahaabujrad7806 6 лет назад

    What this has to do with L(f(t))=integral from 0 to inf of e^-st*f(t)

  • @leguminosa9
    @leguminosa9 6 лет назад

    but why is the gradient is toward the top of hill? shouldn't it converge to the goalie instead?

    • @robitybopity
      @robitybopity 6 лет назад

      Martin Johnsons I believe the gradient points toward the steepest point, or the greatest rate of spacial change

  • @NEO-z2y
    @NEO-z2y 3 года назад +1

    Grant you're grand❤

  • @michaelhaggerty569
    @michaelhaggerty569 7 лет назад

    what program did you use to make this?

    • @robertwilsoniii2048
      @robertwilsoniii2048 6 лет назад

      Michael Haggerty He wrote his own software from scratch. If you want to learn the skills to build something like this, you can take Stanford’s cs106ab and cs107 via RUclips.

  • @Lonczakt
    @Lonczakt 6 лет назад

    Anyone know what software was used to make the graph

  • @murphy98969
    @murphy98969 5 лет назад

    Where i can get this software ????

  • @murphy98969
    @murphy98969 5 лет назад

    When laplacian of function is zero what it mean???

  • @dastran2731
    @dastran2731 6 лет назад

    what about f(x,y,z) intuition?

  • @joluju2375
    @joluju2375 5 лет назад

    As intuitive as expected. Was it on purpose you didn't use the word "concavity" ?

  • @jobhiojkp
    @jobhiojkp 5 лет назад

    Does anyone say del anymore, instead of nabla? Or is that from another generation?

  • @nomanruhani5626
    @nomanruhani5626 2 года назад

    oh, look who I got, mr grant

  • @nautiyogi8386
    @nautiyogi8386 5 лет назад

    Amazing ! Amazing !

  • @Graywolf116
    @Graywolf116 3 года назад +2

    So the laplacian is the divergence of a gradient? It'd be so much easier if they just said *that* instead of slapping someone's name onto it.

  • @richardwborge
    @richardwborge 5 лет назад +2

    I recognize this voice :)

  • @mingxi1055
    @mingxi1055 7 месяцев назад

    heat equation intuition

  • @subtlethingsinlife
    @subtlethingsinlife 5 лет назад

    3 blue1 brown , I know the voice ... Happy

  • @arjunmenonkandanat6328
    @arjunmenonkandanat6328 6 месяцев назад

    Is this Grant Sanderson ?

  • @weeborghini4016
    @weeborghini4016 2 года назад

    are u bluebrown?? u sounds similar

  • @marcosviniciusrodriguescos8118
    @marcosviniciusrodriguescos8118 4 года назад

    thank's man!

  • @stevewhitt9109
    @stevewhitt9109 Год назад

    3Bu1Bn miss you at Khan

  • @MP-cv6if
    @MP-cv6if Месяц назад

    3 blue 1 brown???

  • @masterj2245
    @masterj2245 4 года назад

    Good

  • @Revan176
    @Revan176 5 лет назад

    You haven't plot the laplacian too :'(

  • @kossanmoo9931
    @kossanmoo9931 6 лет назад

    why wouldn't the water flow downwards following the gravity (:

    • @vectracris1
      @vectracris1 6 лет назад +1

      Because the water example was just an analogy so that he could explain and make us visualise better, with the help of the blue lines, not an actual example of how gravity works

  • @jasonpapadopoulos7732
    @jasonpapadopoulos7732 6 лет назад +10

    3BLUE1BROWN YEAHHHHHH

  • @drewm-r7249
    @drewm-r7249 6 лет назад +3

    Omg is this the 3blue1brown guy!?!??!

  • @victorserras
    @victorserras 6 лет назад +5

    3Blue1Brown in da house

  • @rio_agustian_
    @rio_agustian_ 3 года назад +1

    Blanket of nightmare

  • @MoeSalamaIbrahim
    @MoeSalamaIbrahim 3 месяца назад

    POV: you've stayed here because of 3Blue1Brown's very own Grant Sanderson and his soothing voice.

  • @NSLikeableHuman
    @NSLikeableHuman 5 лет назад

    3b1b army reporting!

  • @rat_king-
    @rat_king- 2 года назад

    No Pi people? What? 3 Blue 1 Brown....

  • @yeongwooh4921
    @yeongwooh4921 2 года назад

    Voice is same as of 3blue 1brown

  • @DracoRenaissance
    @DracoRenaissance 8 лет назад +2

    calligraphy hurts my eyes

  • @stipepavic843
    @stipepavic843 8 лет назад +1

    thx alooooottt XD

  • @seandafny
    @seandafny 6 лет назад

    Wait a minute !! I know you !! And you are no sal khan !!!

    • @seandafny
      @seandafny 4 года назад

      Lol 1 year to forget not bad

  • @ConstructionGuy
    @ConstructionGuy 8 лет назад +1

    1st?

  • @helper_bot
    @helper_bot 2 года назад

    this sounds like Grant. Is this Grant? aha.

  • @ManojKumar-cj7oj
    @ManojKumar-cj7oj 4 года назад

    Oh my goodness

  • @Originalimoc
    @Originalimoc 6 лет назад

    Wait... Who is taking 😂

  • @cliffordwilliams9597
    @cliffordwilliams9597 2 года назад

    3BLUE1BROWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @DracoRenaissance
    @DracoRenaissance 8 лет назад

    idea: Sal does the audio, another the animations and graphs and prettiness, a third the math

  • @neallucas
    @neallucas 8 лет назад +1

    I guess.