How (and why) to raise e to the power of a matrix | DE6

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  • Опубликовано: 3 июн 2024
  • General exponentials, love, Schrödinger, and more.
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  • @carl8703
    @carl8703 3 года назад +8655

    Publishing math content on April Fool's Day is a really good way to have your audience evaluate your work critically.

    • @carl8703
      @carl8703 3 года назад +529

      And yet this video still winds up convincing me, so if this is a joke, consider me fooled.

    • @eyeborg3148
      @eyeborg3148 3 года назад +240

      Naa this stuff is all legit grant doesn’t mess around.

    • @voliol8070
      @voliol8070 3 года назад +96

      @@carl8703 It could also work as a way to introduce/spread your own definitions, by ”fooling” the audience they are widely accepted. You’d have to be quite confident you can convice your audience though.

    • @javidfarhan1675
      @javidfarhan1675 3 года назад +103

      @@carl8703 I guess it takes a long time for him to make a video , and he wouldn't waste resources on an April fools prank.

    • @collection6062
      @collection6062 3 года назад +83

      EEEEEE
      EE
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  • @freddyfozzyfilms2688
    @freddyfozzyfilms2688 3 года назад +3142

    When we needed him the most, he returned.

  • @Quotenbrtchen
    @Quotenbrtchen 3 года назад +2589

    Juliet: "It just seems like your feelings aren't real"
    Romeo: "I think your doubts are only imaginary"

    • @phucminhnguyenle250
      @phucminhnguyenle250 3 года назад +562

      What a complex relationship

    • @pralaykayal2476
      @pralaykayal2476 3 года назад +24

      @@phucminhnguyenle250 😂😂😂

    • @PMA65537
      @PMA65537 3 года назад +32

      love = 0 for all t is a solution (or I'm no tennis player).

    • @NightmareCourtPictures
      @NightmareCourtPictures 3 года назад +70

      "Hey e what's your favorite movie?"
      *e puts on sunglasses*
      the matrix

    • @raymondchang8984
      @raymondchang8984 2 года назад +3

      @@PMA65537 Yo is this a detective conan reference?

  • @onusbaum
    @onusbaum 3 года назад +483

    Please !!! Do the video on the Schrödinger equation: you are the only one out there, who could truely explain it and its beauty 💖💗💖

  • @wxcvbndu51
    @wxcvbndu51 3 года назад +2341

    "Fun little exercise" and "Ordinary differential equations textbook" are two groups of words I didn't expect to ever hear in the same sentence again now that I'm done with uni

    • @elias_xp95
      @elias_xp95 3 года назад +61

      I'm here for fun, I'm not in uni and I'm not a mathematician. What's wrong with me!?

    • @girlord13
      @girlord13 3 года назад +13

      Your uni prefaced the content with the words 'fun little excercise'? That's just barefaced cheek!

    • @carl8703
      @carl8703 3 года назад +18

      At least they're not partial differential equations 🤷‍♂️

    • @epauletshark3793
      @epauletshark3793 3 года назад +31

      @@elias_xp95 the same thing thats wrong with me, I guess you love learning and understanding things, and that this guy has a really nice voice.

    • @jackychanmaths
      @jackychanmaths 3 года назад +9

      Ordinary differential equations are already very nice. Take a look at the partial differential equations......

  • @zacharychristy8928
    @zacharychristy8928 3 года назад +749

    "One application is relationships, the other is quantum mechanics, let's start with relationships"
    Why did you go with the more difficult one first?

    • @ateium2409
      @ateium2409 3 года назад +92

      So that the second one would feel exponentially easier .

    • @BudgiePanic
      @BudgiePanic 3 года назад +7

      beat me to it

    • @ccooll2008
      @ccooll2008 3 года назад +14

      I've got an exam on advanced methods in quantum mechanics and I can say: So far I got a good overview over quantum mechanics but Im still baffled by relationships.

    • @7of475
      @7of475 3 года назад +6

      There's a reason I have been pursuing one of these things before the other, and it's certainly not that I'm proactive to the point of engaging with difficulty first.

    • @YoutubeModeratorsSuckMyBalls
      @YoutubeModeratorsSuckMyBalls 3 года назад +1

      Because nerds will never get a girlfriend) Just admit it, numbers will not help you with girls

  • @alejrandom6592
    @alejrandom6592 2 года назад +540

    I learned a few days ago that
    a -b
    b a
    is a matrix isomorphic to a+bi, it's nice to see that the exponent relation also holds :)

    • @JosiahWarren
      @JosiahWarren 2 года назад +9

      Never thought of that. Thank you

    • @angeldude101
      @angeldude101 2 года назад +17

      A topic I've recently been learning about is Clifford Algebra, and while it usually isn't done with matrices, the various objects have matrix representations. The algebra also encodes the complex numbers. That matrix is the actual matrix representation of a+bi in Clifford Algebra, despite the fact that the the unit vectors it usually acts on look completely different in matrix form than normal unit vectors.

    • @agrajyadav2951
      @agrajyadav2951 2 года назад

      Ja

    • @adjoint_functor
      @adjoint_functor 2 года назад +2

      This actually looks shockingly similar to the inverse matrix formula, wonder if there’s a connection there

    • @PersonaRandomNumbers
      @PersonaRandomNumbers 2 года назад +14

      @@adjoint_functor If you squint, the formula for the inverse of a 2x2 matrix kinda looks like the formula for the multiplicative inverse of a complex number, z^-1 = z*/|z|; that is, the complex conjugate (the number but with the imaginary part multiplied by -1), divided by the magnitude of the complex number.
      If you also watched 3b1b's videos on complex numbers, the relationships are kinda neat. You can see from that formula that the magnitude of a complex number is equal to the determinant of its matrix representation, and the multiplicative inverse of a complex number multiplying to equal 1 is mirrored by the matrix representation's inverse multiplying to the identity matrix.

  • @kevinlee597
    @kevinlee597 3 года назад +236

    As a physics student, I'm really grateful for being able to know this channel and all your intuitive videos.

    • @rorysparshott4223
      @rorysparshott4223 8 месяцев назад +1

      God I wish I had it when I was one. I just shouted out loud asking why we weren't taught that a derivative of a vector can be expressed as a matrix multiplication. I wish I could explain how many months of second year that single thing would have saved me

    • @JustanotherFormulaFAN
      @JustanotherFormulaFAN 5 месяцев назад

      Me watching this like 7 years before I need it

  • @jamesblackburn8110
    @jamesblackburn8110 3 года назад +781

    I've been a big fan of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips since I was about ten years old. One storyline began with Calvin receiving a mysterious letter in the mail that appeared to be from some kind of secret agent -- the text consisted of individual letters clipped and pasted from magazines, the return address was nothing but a skull and crossbones, the writer advised Calvin that a coded message would soon follow -- all the tropes. The strip ends with Calvin sprinting off, yelling "This is so cool I have to go to the BATHROOM!" I found that response to be both hilarious and relatable. Calvin had no idea what was going to happen next, nor if he would even be able to figure any of it out -- he just knew it was so bizarrely exciting that he had to drop everything he was doing and hope to make sense of it just for the sheer joy of it.
    Anyway, that's pretty much exactly how I feel whenever I hop onto youtube and see that 3Blue1Brown has posted a new video.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад +23

      It's always nice to feel like Calvin every once in a while.

    • @uncreativecosmos
      @uncreativecosmos 3 года назад +7

      Who doesn't love Calvin & Hobbes ? Lovely analogy by the way.

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  • @ajbiffl4695
    @ajbiffl4695 3 года назад +824

    "raise to the power of the derivative operator" YOU CAN"T JUST DROP BOMBS AND DIP

    • @Kidynamo123
      @Kidynamo123 3 года назад +24

      Look up something called Exponential Shift

    • @sosavoa
      @sosavoa 3 года назад +81

      MATH VIDEO WITH A CLIFFHANGER??? HUH

    • @hybmnzz2658
      @hybmnzz2658 3 года назад +35

      Well in his Linear Algebra playlist he did show how the derivative can be framed as a matrix because it is a linear operator.
      Remember in the Linear Algebra series how the derivative matrix acted on a polynomial? Now in this video he hinted at functions being like "infinite vectors". An offhand guess is that physicists describe functions by taking the coefficients of their power series into an "infinite vector".
      Put two and two together and I guess e^(d/dx) is a matrix which operates on functions.
      SPOILERS (?):
      According to wikipedia e^(d/dx) = 1 + D + D^2/2! + D^3/3! + .... where D is the derivative operator. Applying this to a function probably means taking the function, adding its first derivative, adding its second derivative over 2!, and so forth.
      Not sure if this is the same concept that can be reached by using what I guessed before the spoiler. Just speculating.

    • @NXTangl
      @NXTangl 3 года назад +1

      @@hybmnzz2658 So, the MacLaurin polynomial centered on x, evaluated at (x + 1), if my mental derivation is correct...

    • @edwardfanboy
      @edwardfanboy 3 года назад +8

      exp(d/dx) f(x) = f(x+1)

  • @maasbekooy901
    @maasbekooy901 3 года назад +429

    In the beginning: Damn this one is half an hour.
    At the end: Nooooooo, it can't be over already. I want more!

    • @cnidariantide4207
      @cnidariantide4207 2 года назад +6

      I've spent a half-hour on this video and I'm only one minute in-I'm cross-referencing everything he says. If you get on my level, you might enjoy yourself more!

  • @emlun
    @emlun 2 года назад +101

    I just love this intro, pointing out that the notation is initially nonsense but then receives a meaning we choose to give it. I will always remember how one of my professors introduced distributions:
    "Alright, we've hand-waved a definition of the Dirac delta-"function" which is "infinite" in one point and zero everywhere else. That makes no sense, a function can't do that. But here's what we're going to do: we're going to write an integral over this "function", then we're going to _cheat,_ and then we'll end up with something that makes sense in the end. Right now, this integral is nonsense. So let's instead _define_ a meaning for this integral. And that's it! We'll call it a _distribution_ instead of a function. The Dirac distribution will be meaningless outside of an integral, but completely well behaved when in an integral."
    Beautiful cycle between discovery and invention indeed!

    • @shashankdevarmani
      @shashankdevarmani 5 месяцев назад

      Your professor is a genius 🤩.
      I just love those aha moments when something just clicks and which later on give you so many moments to grin while solving examples 😁

  • @aaronbalan3959
    @aaronbalan3959 3 года назад +602

    There is NO person that I know that i have not recommended this beautiful channel to. You are my hero and icon. :)

    • @voxelltech
      @voxelltech 3 года назад +6

      same!

    • @markgearing
      @markgearing 3 года назад +23

      I don’t know what it is about the way he speaks, but it always sounds like he’s smiling. He’s the sort of teacher that any parent hopes their child will have.

    • @KarelPletsStriker
      @KarelPletsStriker 3 года назад +7

      Every STEM student I know is in his debt

    • @missmpolley9706
      @missmpolley9706 3 года назад +2

      That is so true!! I just thought about it and I can't think of anyone I know in an engeniering program that hasn't mentioned this channel

    • @omniyambot9876
      @omniyambot9876 3 года назад +2

      You know Schrodinger right? Have you told him already?

  • @joaofrancisco8864
    @joaofrancisco8864 3 года назад +404

    I just cannot be grateful enough to live in a time when this kind of content is freely available on the internet. Thank you for all your work, Grant.

    • @pechabada
      @pechabada 3 года назад +13

      You are right. I can only regret that such a thing did not exist 40 years ago, when I needed it. Now all I have to do is admire the beauty, simplicity and clarity of this way of interpreting mathematics.

    • @volodymyrhavrylov7993
      @volodymyrhavrylov7993 3 года назад +1

      +100500 man, ur so right

    • @easymathematik
      @easymathematik 3 года назад +1

      It is freely available, because it is profitable. Such videos takes a loooooot of time. Nobody would do it for free.
      20 years ago I am sure he would try to make a VHS or DVD series. But there is no guarantee for selling.
      RUclips is a guarantee. Patreon is a guarantee.
      If he would not get paid he would not do it. Money is everything. And as long as money is "enough", such videos will exist.

    • @RolandOrre
      @RolandOrre 3 года назад +2

      but it's not always trivial to download it, so you really have it, I first failed, but then found that I had to update the downloader software, as google video of some reason change their protocols so often.

  • @yor1001
    @yor1001 3 года назад +203

    As a controls engineer, I've never considered a state-space equation in this fashion.
    You blew my mind once again!

    • @andrewcihon-scott2170
      @andrewcihon-scott2170 2 года назад +9

      This video was great! I just started a graduate controls course, and this way of thinking about the state transition matrix really blew me away.

    • @kelly4187
      @kelly4187 2 года назад +9

      @@andrewcihon-scott2170 I'm lecturing something called "Dynamical systems" for just one year and we've covered lots of this, characterising the fixed point of a 2D system of 1st order linear DEs by the behaviour around the fixed point of the system... And I'd never considered the relation to control theory.
      We need a grand unified theory of control dynamics!!!!!

    • @micahrubel1356
      @micahrubel1356 Год назад +2

      I legit just learned about state space in my first introductory course to control theory, and, while I probably don't appreciate it as richly as others, it still will probably help me with intuition going forward.

  • @paulhamacher773
    @paulhamacher773 Год назад +47

    I remember during my study where e to the power of a matrix confused the hell out of me. I desperately would have needed this video. Now I'm watching just out of pure interest. 😄

  • @scottarmstrong9566
    @scottarmstrong9566 3 года назад +191

    As a math professor teaching ODE this semester, let me just say: this is wonderful!

    • @samsonblack
      @samsonblack 3 года назад +9

      Same. I recommend both the Diff Eq playlist and the Linear Algebra playlist to my students every term.

    • @Jackisaboss1208
      @Jackisaboss1208 3 года назад +2

      @@samsonblack I recommend the linear algebra series to my classmates every term 😂

    • @sauronstillgood6804
      @sauronstillgood6804 3 года назад +2

      @@Jackisaboss1208 how tf you take linear algebra every term 😂

    • @zacharyeichenberger4929
      @zacharyeichenberger4929 3 года назад +1

      @@sauronstillgood6804 CE, probably

  • @DebabrataMahapatra91
    @DebabrataMahapatra91 3 года назад +42

    Incredible script man!
    My best line: Cynically, this is abuse of notation; but charitably, this is the cycle of discovery and invention.
    It's not just the visuals, but the script behind it is poetic. I love this guy!

  • @josvanderspek1403
    @josvanderspek1403 3 года назад +41

    We have to create a new contest besides Nobal, Fields, etc. This guy needs a medal.

  • @pvlkmrv
    @pvlkmrv 3 года назад +191

    "Why would mathematicians and physicists be interested in torturing their poor matrices this way?"

    • @PMA65537
      @PMA65537 3 года назад +23

      Wait till you hear what Hilbert did to lettuces.

    • @bradenhuss7003
      @bradenhuss7003 2 года назад +22

      "torturing the MATRICES?!?" -college undergrads after spending two weeks straight calculating the inverses of 3x3 matrices by hand

    • @GeorgeTsiros
      @GeorgeTsiros 2 года назад +5

      Sweet, sweet revenge.

    • @bluelemon243
      @bluelemon243 2 года назад +1

      @@PMA65537 can you tell more ?

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      @magnitudematrix2653 10 дней назад

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  • @jamesjohns2201
    @jamesjohns2201 3 года назад +71

    I teach graduate quantum mechanics to physical chemists, and I love showing them the videos you make, especially ones that visualize some of the maths relevant to QM. Please keep making them

    • @arhanvora4545
      @arhanvora4545 2 года назад +1

      Heyo, would you mind telling us which videos you have found particularly relevant to QM? I’d really like to dive into them. Cheers :D

  • @integralboi2900
    @integralboi2900 3 года назад +565

    The king has returned. Let's hope this isn't the start of a new hiatus!

    • @MaxC_1
      @MaxC_1 3 года назад +13

      He was busy with courses in some uni, think MIT and prolly something related so makes sense. Also maybe planning and stuff too

    • @fzigunov
      @fzigunov 3 года назад +25

      I would estimate >200 hours of work to get this video done. It would actually be nice to know how much time 3B1B actually spends on these creations.
      We're blessed and don't even know...

    • @jamienorth1603
      @jamienorth1603 3 года назад +3

      @@fzigunov ive used manim (the language he used to make his animations) a little bit and it honestly takes about an hour to make one scene so god knows how long it takes him. Propts to him for this

    • @LimLux
      @LimLux 3 года назад

      @@fzigunov He has a team for stuff like that?.

    • @fzigunov
      @fzigunov 3 года назад +1

      @@LimLux I think you would be surprised...

  • @billiemelo4276
    @billiemelo4276 3 года назад +40

    I’m highly appreciative that the matrices at 5:14 are the first 9 digits of pi lol. Great video as always, thank you Grant!!

  • @scrapmechanicgamer3155
    @scrapmechanicgamer3155 10 месяцев назад +12

    I love how in every video 3b1b goes from "that's utter nonsense" to "that's perfectly valid' and explains every step 0f the way

  • @stevenlin5377
    @stevenlin5377 3 года назад +98

    I just want to say that you're my favorite youtuber. You help me so much during my study in university and getting a master degree. You also reignite my interest in math, which I previously thought wasn't even possible. Words can't express how much I love your video and the way you teach math.

    • @3blue1brown
      @3blue1brown  3 года назад +53

      That's so kind of you, thanks. I hope you help to spread the love of math with others in your life :)

    • @domenicobianchi8
      @domenicobianchi8 5 месяцев назад

      @@3blue1brown I came searching for the sequel. I was sure i watched it years ago, but now i realize maybe you never published it. Am i right? (By the way, terrific job. Im a long way fan of the channel, i'm currenly ill, and binge watching all your videos-again!)

  • @alxkeda
    @alxkeda 3 года назад +1136

    Happy April fools!

    • @bhavyavashisht5891
      @bhavyavashisht5891 3 года назад +40

      First

    • @3blue1brown
      @3blue1brown  3 года назад +2003

      The joke is that I actually upload content these days :)

    • @Offthedog
      @Offthedog 3 года назад +170

      @@3blue1brown joke or not, I’m still grateful that you still upload content. Your channel is a great contributor to making me pursue a career in applied mathematics.

    • @jockycracker8253
      @jockycracker8253 3 года назад +40

      ​@@3blue1brown Then maybe an "essence of probability" as a joke, hmm?

    • @yoyokojo651
      @yoyokojo651 3 года назад +10

      @@3blue1brown i was going to like this comment till i saw it that it had 314 likes, oh how nice things can be

  • @niteman555
    @niteman555 Год назад +30

    I wish I had the necessary math background when I was taking advanced physics in college. it would have made the course a lot less painful.

    • @LoptukqrickL11
      @LoptukqrickL11 Год назад +3

      haha right? At the end I was like "oh, we've basically been doing the same thing over and over with slight variations."

  • @sudeepgopal
    @sudeepgopal 3 года назад +18

    I did my engineering sometime ago, I remember seeing the e ^ (matrix) and I remember losing it and thinking wtf....You really have a way of explaining things so elegantly.. I hope I encounter these kind of problems in my career - Very enlightening....Thank you!

  • @mathemaniac
    @mathemaniac 3 года назад +30

    It's been a long time since you uploaded. Welcome back!

    • @3blue1brown
      @3blue1brown  3 года назад +24

      Thanks! I love your symmetries video, by the way.

    • @mathemaniac
      @mathemaniac 3 года назад +8

      @@3blue1brown Wow thanks so much! Never thought you would reply!

  • @Redstonmaster
    @Redstonmaster 3 года назад +519

    Mathematicians before e to the x extends the definitions: "We do some more theorems and we finish with math"
    Mathematicians after:"What if we exponentiate EVERYTHING"

    • @SimonClarkstone
      @SimonClarkstone 3 года назад +57

      Associative algebra: *exists*
      Mathematicians: "Time to define e^x on it"

    • @nolan412
      @nolan412 3 года назад +3

      They're paid to answer these questions because students ask them.

    • @jakubszczesnowicz3201
      @jakubszczesnowicz3201 3 года назад +34

      @@nolan412 They're paid to answer these questions because there's a chance someone in the future will use their work and apply it to the real world

    • @durnsidh6483
      @durnsidh6483 3 года назад +14

      Can't you define e^x on arbitrary rings?

    • @andremouss2536
      @andremouss2536 3 года назад +12

      @@durnsidh6483 Yes, if the ring has a metric

  • @PabloNL89
    @PabloNL89 5 месяцев назад +6

    Incredible. Incomparable work. As a mathematician, I can give you credit that maybe a regular suscriptor can't. I swear your channel have amazed me and you deserve some kind of great well paid recognition.

  • @julesthomas3335
    @julesthomas3335 2 года назад +12

    20:14 "It just seems like your feelings aren't real" 😂
    In fact I really love complex numbers

  • @StevenHodder
    @StevenHodder 3 года назад +628

    An entire semester's worth of my electromagnetics class in university just made sense after 20 years...

    • @Hansengineering
      @Hansengineering 3 года назад +22

      There are many such classes where that happened more or less as I was taking them because of this channel.

    • @ultimategotea
      @ultimategotea 3 года назад +21

      EM is the hardest part of physics to grasp

    • @chalichaligha3234
      @chalichaligha3234 3 года назад +41

      @@ultimategotea , quantum electrodynamics enters the chat.

    • @ultimategotea
      @ultimategotea 3 года назад +74

      @@chalichaligha3234 that's not physics, that's witchcraft

    • @azpcox
      @azpcox 3 года назад +15

      The summation of the wave functions on Schroedingers equation makes much more sense now than it did in college. Grant, where were you 30 years ago? ;) Thanks for making math exciting again! Want more STEM excitement? Show these videos in junior high and high school. Maybe earlier.

  • @adityachk2002
    @adityachk2002 3 года назад +268

    I was like it’s been 3 months since his last upload and 6 months since his regular uploads

    • @3blue1brown
      @3blue1brown  3 года назад +442

      Things will pick up again here now. The videos might not come _super_ quickly, but there are a lot of things I'm excited about coming up this year.

    • @tanmaydeshpande
      @tanmaydeshpande 3 года назад +20

      @@3blue1brown excited for your new stuff. Loved all of your other content!
      (Btw, have you ever considered becoming a voice for asmr videos?)

    • @adityachk2002
      @adityachk2002 3 года назад +4

      @@3blue1brown 🤩

    • @GolumHD
      @GolumHD 3 года назад +1

      @@3blue1brown including blockchains? ^^

    • @kathanshah8305
      @kathanshah8305 3 года назад +1

      @@3blue1brown yesterday I had commented on your previous community post and today here you are

  • @vyaasgururajan932
    @vyaasgururajan932 3 года назад +45

    This is beautiful. This is mostly why Dirac notation is so powerful: Dirac must have similarly reasoned that Schrodinger's Wave mechanics and Heisenberg's Matrix mechanics were essentially describing the same thing!

  • @Lauren-se5bu
    @Lauren-se5bu 2 года назад +2

    I don't even understand most of the stuff in these videos but I find it very calming and it helps me go to sleep lol

  • @metaljoe9923
    @metaljoe9923 3 года назад +40

    "Often this is a function. (But whatever, functions are really just infinite-dimensional vectors)"
    I hope that parenthetical is a teaser for a future video on Functional Analysis.

  • @HebaruSan
    @HebaruSan 3 года назад +241

    So relieved when the Romeo 'n' Juliet graph didn't trace out a heart shape

    • @billowen3285
      @billowen3285 3 года назад

      Why?

    • @pierrekilgoretrout3143
      @pierrekilgoretrout3143 3 года назад +14

      So disappointed that Romeo 'n' Juliet graph didn't trace out a heart shape :'(

    • @diekleinehexe3620
      @diekleinehexe3620 3 года назад +6

      But how would those differential equations look? 🤔

    • @drjohnsonnn
      @drjohnsonnn 3 года назад +8

      Dy/Dx = heart

    • @santerisatama5409
      @santerisatama5409 3 года назад

      @@pierrekilgoretrout3143 Don't feel bad! Here, have a vertical ice cream cone/pointy hat of an elf seen from behind:

  • @OwenMcKinley
    @OwenMcKinley 3 года назад +2

    Grant, you are one of the most important educators in the modern world. To have your library of presentations in my pocket at all times is one of the best feelings there is. Math went from my least to to my most favored topic of study because of your content. May you continue to be an ambassador in this field!

  • @sholinwright6621
    @sholinwright6621 2 года назад +11

    For me this came up in state space methods in control theory. We broke a complex higher order differential equation control problem into a set of first order differential equations, collected them into a vector, and solved the matrix exponential. The advantage was that we could completely assign the poles (roots) of the controlled dynamics of the system with matrix feedback.

  • @RJC65__
    @RJC65__ 3 года назад +96

    Im literally learning this in class rn and im like, oh well ig 3blue1brown will be my teacher today

    • @taymorrison
      @taymorrison 3 года назад +10

      this is what i love about 3blue1brown, i have to carry out these calculations in my qm class all the time, but i have absolutely never understood the intuition behind it until now

  • @ayushdeep7900
    @ayushdeep7900 3 года назад +136

    He came back when we missed him the most because that's what heroes do.

    • @purungo
      @purungo 3 года назад +4

      guess my father's not a hero then

    • @ayushdeep7900
      @ayushdeep7900 3 года назад +4

      @@purungo you shouldn't have written this

    • @purungo
      @purungo 3 года назад +2

      @@ayushdeep7900 Yes I should

    • @ayushdeep7900
      @ayushdeep7900 3 года назад

      @@purungo sorry bro

  • @lancediano8014
    @lancediano8014 3 года назад +1

    Nothing but respect for these videos, teaching math to people from all levels of base knowledge is already hard. The fact you manage to teach them while giving flawless animations and graphical representations is beyond me. How you actually do these animations must take forever, watching them and seeing the numbers count up when u were multiplying matrices had to take a while to figure out and I respect the work you put into it. Lastly this was my first time watching ur videos on my new oled tv, fantastic experience!

  • @salimchahine8324
    @salimchahine8324 2 года назад +4

    without a doubt one of the best math channels on youtube, if not THE best! waiting for episode 7 btw.

  • @jalexandus
    @jalexandus 3 года назад +50

    What I love about your videos is that you might not understand parts of them at first but as you go back to them later, perhaps after gaining some knowledge, things start to click.

  • @maxsch.6555
    @maxsch.6555 3 года назад +32

    I was waiting two years for this video! (the preview was shown in the first video about DE)
    Im so happy right know! Thank you! 😍

    • @3blue1brown
      @3blue1brown  3 года назад +65

      I don't always make the follow-ups I promise quickly (*ahem* probabilities of probabilities *ahem*), but for those willing to wait a few years I feel comfortable promising all will come in due time.

    • @marvelritik8937
      @marvelritik8937 3 года назад +4

      @@3blue1brown yeah I've been waiting for possibilities of possibilities 😆😆

    • @thecoloroctet1365
      @thecoloroctet1365 3 года назад +3

      I was so sad cuz I thought the DE series was discontinued, but now I’m hyped and can’t wait for the rest it!

  • @ben_car_8115
    @ben_car_8115 2 года назад

    I just have to say, your videos are consistently amazing. I am taking a quantum mechanics class right now and needed to brush up on my linear algebra since it’s been a few years, I automatically knew I could watch your videos to regain an intuition and it worked. I have a much better intuition for some of the operations and ideas than others in my class because of these videos.
    Specifically with matrix functions, these were literally just brought up and while it looked kind of odd, my teacher mentioned he would give us some easy ways to evaluate these. I didn’t even know about this video, but now I have a visual intuition for this, in the context of quantum mechanics! 10/10, you are a god among men.

  • @King-Matshobane
    @King-Matshobane 3 года назад +3

    Thank you for the time and effort you took to explain these concepts. I intuitively applied them in my classes without a clear understanding of what these numbers are doing. Visualisation at a level like in your presentation is more like a peep show on what’s going on in the CPU. Finite Element Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics applies these concepts. Once again thank for the good work you are doing. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @ilickcatnip
    @ilickcatnip 3 года назад +45

    Finally!!! I really missed those pi-creatures (and also your voice, Grant! It is hypnotizing enough to make people stick to your videos without giving up, no matter how fighting the math in them can get sometimes😳)

  • @MrPointness
    @MrPointness 3 года назад +3

    6:35 I was fully expecting for it to go like "let's start with the simpler of the two, quantum mechanics"

  • @Shadowkainine
    @Shadowkainine 2 года назад

    This video hits different after having had my first proper differential equations course, it all feels so familiar now. Please keep these coming! They are so much fun!

  • @SashaTownsendTulsa
    @SashaTownsendTulsa 3 года назад +4

    Thank you so much, Grant. That was beautiful! Our college cut this chapter from our elementary differential equations course, but I’m still going to share this video with my students!

  • @JoBrew32
    @JoBrew32 3 года назад +51

    I remember the absolute outrage of my class last semester when we saw this for the first time. Several people called it abuse. This vid makes it seem much nicer.

    • @jaredellison326
      @jaredellison326 3 года назад

      What class was it?

    • @valerianmp
      @valerianmp 3 года назад +5

      Probably intro to diff eq

    • @SimonClarkstone
      @SimonClarkstone 3 года назад

      Works on any associative algebra, AFAICT.

    • @hybmnzz2658
      @hybmnzz2658 3 года назад +7

      Back in the good old days inventing math was about abusing notation until it wasn't abuse anymore

    • @MatthijsvanDuin
      @MatthijsvanDuin 3 года назад +2

      @@SimonClarkstone well no you need some more conditions, it needs to be an algebra over ℚ to allow multiplication by 1/n! and (unless you're satisfied with only being able to use it on nilpotent elements) you'll need a topological structure that defines convergence.

  • @a00954926
    @a00954926 3 года назад +26

    This is hands down one of the best channels ever

  • @PianoPsych
    @PianoPsych 3 года назад +1

    I recall with her great fondness my first contact with this subject matter in an early edition of Hirsch and Smale’s Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems and Linear Algebra. Takes me back many years. You’re extraordinarily good at this. Truly a treasure. Thank you for these videos.

  • @d3scripted672
    @d3scripted672 3 года назад +10

    i'm only in elementary school but i love this channel. It really just shows the beauty of math, and inspires me alot to learn more. Thanks for making these high quality videos, much love and respect (:

  • @jimbobur
    @jimbobur 3 года назад +125

    Oh my god I wish I'd known this years ago. They just threw this at us in QM lectures during my physics degree and not one lecturer ever bothered to explain any of this, even briefly..

    • @theyredistortingyourrhythm130
      @theyredistortingyourrhythm130 3 года назад +3

      But, are you aware in 2021?

    • @UmarO
      @UmarO 2 года назад

      I was gonna make this comment

    • @DD-vc7fq
      @DD-vc7fq 2 года назад +1

      I am getting a masters degree in mathematics in 3 months and yet, I have never seen matrix being an exponent. lmao.

  • @arda8393
    @arda8393 3 года назад +8

    This is the only channel where im practically lost from the get go but still compelled to watch till the end

  • @ishaqkhan1024
    @ishaqkhan1024 3 месяца назад

    Thank you, I can always rely on this channel for a comprehensive explanation of these topics which seem very complicated and daunting at first. There is clearly a lot of effort put into these videos, and they are very much appreciated.

  • @compuholic82
    @compuholic82 3 года назад +2

    I hope that kids these days can really appreciate how lucky they are to have channels like 3B1B. I can clearly remember the time when I sat in my calculus classes and the concept of matrix exponents was first used. I was too busy to write down the professor's derivation from the chalkboard to really think about it. But when I reviewed my notes back home I thought to myself: "What the hell does that even mean". Of course I figured it out eventually.
    But channels like this should really help today's students. Because professors rarely take the time to motivate something with examples. It is just definition -> theorem -> proof -> repeat. And of course that is important. But sometimes you miss the bigger picture.

  • @songhetang2961
    @songhetang2961 3 года назад +12

    I am so excited to learn maths this way from you. I have a PhD in physics, and am more than 20 years into my career as a scientist. I do a lot of calculations to support my experiments, so I have a basic understanding of mathematics, but I feel like a fog is being wiped clean when I watch your videos. Thank you so much!

  • @giabao576
    @giabao576 3 года назад +27

    as someone who studies physics with the "just enough" math knowledge, this video is mind blowing to me, it makes me realize that I should be looking more into the math of the physics phenomenons. Physics is applied mathematics, but physics also spark ideas, problems for us to develop models, concepts that we have never thought about!

  • @nightlord531
    @nightlord531 3 года назад +7

    Really hope you explore Laplace transforms later in this series! Using them to solve DEs makes designing control systems much easier.

  • @rommelchinas4593
    @rommelchinas4593 3 года назад +1

    This is certainly one of my 3B1B favorites. Thanks for making these videos.

  • @anywallsocket
    @anywallsocket 3 года назад +20

    Seeing the pi’s always miss each other with their heart eyes is honestly tragic 😍😭

  • @nikoovarela5723
    @nikoovarela5723 3 года назад +182

    Never have i clicked so fast on a notification

    • @hashirhussain.
      @hashirhussain. 3 года назад +9

      Even me. I was watching something else. I ran to see this .

    • @maxsch.6555
      @maxsch.6555 3 года назад +7

      Same

    • @apocalypt0723
      @apocalypt0723 3 года назад +3

      me 2 :D

    • @nullpointer1755
      @nullpointer1755 3 года назад +1

      Same

    • @skilz8098
      @skilz8098 3 года назад

      @@hashirhussain. There is one other RUclipsr that has this same effect and that is Ben Eater!

  • @DeltaSleepy
    @DeltaSleepy 2 года назад +1

    Your illustrations and explanations are second to none. Great content!

  • @onusbaum
    @onusbaum 3 года назад +2

    This is BRILLANT, it explains complex numbers intuitively !

  • @deepakramalingam6041
    @deepakramalingam6041 3 года назад +62

    Never understand it fully but came for the channel

    • @iremsipahi4507
      @iremsipahi4507 3 года назад +2

      Literally me

    • @U20E0
      @U20E0 3 года назад +2

      If you don’t understand a math related thing, go see if 3blue1brown has a video on it, it might help yo- *wait a second...*

  • @payamism
    @payamism 3 года назад +6

    The kids today have so many excellent sources available to them in a couple of clicks. Back in the day, even 10 years ago, we didn't have such clear, attractive, and deep explanations. Most people, even the ones who would get the A+ really didn't understand the concepts. They were just good at taking the test. I wish this was available to me 20 years ago when I was a freshman in college.

    • @seahyx120
      @seahyx120 3 года назад +3

      Now everyone, not just the best scientists and researchers out there, can stand on the shoulders of giants. This is what the internet is made for.

  • @rv706
    @rv706 2 года назад +7

    This video was so lovely. A motivating thing that you could've added, together with the fact that you already said that matrix exponentiation solves linear dynamical systems, is that the latter are the first order approximations of non-linear dynamical systems around equilibrium points. You would actually have enough material on this to make a whole video, explaining linearization and e.g. normal modes/frequencies of (small) oscillations.

  • @nk9083
    @nk9083 2 года назад +8

    Great contrast on the Textbook Progression vs. Discovery Progression. I wish more lectures and textbooks would start with the discovery progression. I remember way back in High school calculus - It is especially dangerous when a teacher who doesn’t understand the subject blindly follows the textbook progression.

  • @Mutual_Information
    @Mutual_Information 3 года назад +70

    There is only one RUclips channel where I hit the like button before I even watch it.

    • @definesigint2823
      @definesigint2823 3 года назад +1

      I've often wondered...can creators see _when_ you upvote (possibly giving some data on the moment the video was meaningful)?

    • @Mutual_Information
      @Mutual_Information 3 года назад +5

      @@definesigint2823 Turns out I’m a creator :) on RUclips studio, which shows analytics, no you can’t see when it happened. However, you do see percent of viewers who are still watching over the duration of the vid. So if that percentage drops, you know that part of the vid gets people to leave. Pretty useful.

    • @guest_of_randomness
      @guest_of_randomness 3 года назад +1

      @@Mutual_Information lmao i m sure the romeo and juliet part hold the people in this video

    • @jn5433
      @jn5433 3 года назад

      Why the fck would you do that.

    • @Mutual_Information
      @Mutual_Information 3 года назад

      @@jn5433 lol

  • @diekleinehexe3620
    @diekleinehexe3620 3 года назад +43

    I'm a third year physics student and by now, I have seen a fair bit of QM. It's amazing how you always manage to give new and visually intuitive ways of imagining calculations, that we do so often without further thinking about it. I wish our lectures would be taught more like this.

    • @gena8414
      @gena8414 3 года назад +1

      leave physics. you are wasting your life.

    • @michaelking8391
      @michaelking8391 3 года назад +1

      @@gena8414 what isn't then wasting your life?

    • @gena8414
      @gena8414 3 года назад

      @@michaelking8391 cs

    • @velhacega
      @velhacega 3 года назад

      @@gena8414 so you can be dumber than a physicist that can code just as well as you?

    • @gena8414
      @gena8414 3 года назад

      @@velhacega lmaoooooooo show me a physicist who can code as well as me

  • @PileOfEmptyTapes
    @PileOfEmptyTapes 3 года назад

    I haven't dealt with any of this in over a decade, but what an absolutely beautiful presentation! Hats off to you, sir.

  • @ornessarhithfaeron3576
    @ornessarhithfaeron3576 3 года назад +3

    13:00 reminded me of my robotics class! It's one of the matrices we use to describe the rotation of robotic arms :)

  • @tomassanchezpucheta2142
    @tomassanchezpucheta2142 3 года назад +11

    This channel is one of the greatest things that has ever happended to the math explanation!

  • @davidwigginton8328
    @davidwigginton8328 Год назад

    I love your work and I love this channel. I want more on this series, can’t get enough!

  • @cr4zyg3n36
    @cr4zyg3n36 3 года назад

    I wish you had been my math teacher... you do the world a great deal of justice with these wonderfully dynamic animations. Thank you.

  • @johnchessant3012
    @johnchessant3012 3 года назад +8

    For the situation at 24:18, we get e^([[0,1],[1,0]] * t) = [[1, e^t], [e^t, 1]], so they tend to infinity at an exponential rate! Yay for true love!

  • @farrankhawaja9856
    @farrankhawaja9856 3 года назад +7

    Grant is the kind of guy that can combine love and the Schrodinger equations all while raising e to the derivative operator!
    Btw I just wanna say that ever since you've 'disappeared' I started to slowly drift away from math. Thanks for inspiring me again! Can't wait for ur new uploads!

  • @bunyaminozkaya498
    @bunyaminozkaya498 3 года назад +1

    I don't normally comment on videos but I'm SO GLAD you continue this series !!!!!
    I'm happy like a child :)

  • @Arthur-xe3pu
    @Arthur-xe3pu 3 года назад +1

    Currently learning about eigen problems and their applications in physics, it's nice to see that you'v come back to this series, great video.

    • @thelonegerman2314
      @thelonegerman2314 2 года назад

      I'm Interested in comparison of matrix VECTOR , EIGENVECTORS using Taylor expansion and DETERMINANT for infinite series and PAULI MATRIX

  • @ayadevin2413
    @ayadevin2413 3 года назад +3

    The timing could not be more perfect - just went over this topic in class and 1 week before the midterm!

  • @Tehom1
    @Tehom1 3 года назад +4

    Even stranger things have been exponentiated to. Strangest one I know: the creation and annihilation operators. It comes up in the analysis of squeezed light, such as LIGO uses. It's convenient to analyze squeezed light by changing the basis, by a Bogulyobov transform, to the sinh and cosh functions, where the arguments are the annihilation operator plus or minus the creation operator. Sinh and cosh of course are just e^x+/- e^-x. So they were exponentiating to the power of "annihilating a photon minus creating one" etc, and it actually works to describe a physical process.

  • @SroTheProducer
    @SroTheProducer Месяц назад

    The fact you made visuals for this is amazing

  • @IhsanMujdeci
    @IhsanMujdeci 2 года назад +1

    Thanks a lot. I'm a programmer and am making these concepts in code as we go. Really gives me another dimension of intuition.

  • @ajhcornwall
    @ajhcornwall 3 года назад +3

    I definitely want to hear about e^d/dx, and more on Schrödinger's equation. Brilliant!

  • @georgerodionov5941
    @georgerodionov5941 3 года назад +54

    "Rotation in a kind of function space". Thanks, my brain is now all over the wall

    • @jonathanmartin2326
      @jonathanmartin2326 3 года назад

      It seems 4 other people laughed out loud at this comment.

    • @MatteoMori
      @MatteoMori 2 года назад

      My room has a new gory wallpaper as well

  • @finojose
    @finojose 3 года назад +2

    Grant, This video is awsome!. I would like to thank you for all your videos and helping me to progress in my development in quantum computing and machine learning. Your visual, intuitive and elegant way to teach linear algebra and related concepts helped me a lot to move ahead and get in love with the field. Thank you very much.

  • @davidkigel3861
    @davidkigel3861 3 года назад +2

    Thanks for another amazing video @3Blue1Brown! I think it could be also worth mentioning the alternative definition of the exponential of a matrix as the limit of the products (1+A/n)^n when n tends to infinity. What I like of it is:
    - Immediately visualizable for a given n as a simple Euler numeric integration in n steps.
    - Can be motivated and bring intuition from simple problems with regular numbers as continuous compound interest.

    • @thelonegerman2314
      @thelonegerman2314 2 года назад

      I'm Interested in the DIAGAGNOLIZATION of matrix VECTOR using Taylor expansion and DETERMINANT for infinite series and PAULI MATRIX and Clifford Algebra for solving the Schoringer Equation And HEINGBER uncertainty for QUANTUM FIELD PERBUTATION

  • @CharlesPanigeo
    @CharlesPanigeo 3 года назад +5

    Gotta love power series. They make it possible to define all sorts of functions on matrixies like cosine, sine, exponentials, logarithms, etc.

  • @gabedarrett1301
    @gabedarrett1301 3 года назад +3

    This is indescribably beautiful! You have a gift, Grant!

  • @JoeBurnett
    @JoeBurnett Месяц назад

    Your videos are SO good! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!

  • @estebanguerrero682
    @estebanguerrero682 3 года назад +1

    WHAT AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE!!!
    You make an inspiration to keeping up the studies

  • @shahidx9
    @shahidx9 3 года назад +176

    "Its seems like your feeling aren't real"- Juliet

    • @adamuhaddadi5332
      @adamuhaddadi5332 3 года назад +21

      **laughs in complex numbers**

    • @julsius
      @julsius 3 года назад +6

      i didnt even realise (before this video) that this circular function described the R&J love story and the on and off again crush i had for a few years. tragic.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад +1

      I guess that's why the whole wedding thing didn't work out, eh?

    • @Rick_C137_op
      @Rick_C137_op 3 года назад +1

      It is imaginary

    • @tomctutor
      @tomctutor 3 года назад +5

      Imagine that J(t)+iR(t), Juliet has real feelings but Romeo is faking it!

  • @OuroborosVengeance
    @OuroborosVengeance 3 года назад +7

    I thank dear Zeus and the olimpians for bringing you back. You made my week with this video. Thank you 3b1b!
    May your week be good too!

  • @user-nv4lx7cl4p
    @user-nv4lx7cl4p 4 месяца назад

    To the time I write this comment, Im a Mech.Eng. student and currently taking a course in dynamics. Our professor showed us a proof that if you derive a vector, the new vector is perpendicular to the first. I asked if we can determine the orientation, and he replied that he doesn't know. I'm watching this video at 3:50 a.m. suddenly it struck me - some of your equations and animations made me realize that we can determine the "natural" orientation, and even understand gradient and curl itself. And this ain't even the purpose of the video. Thanks for making math that clear, I'll even say that obvious, over and over again ❤️

  • @mossmanmick728
    @mossmanmick728 3 года назад +1

    I remember receiving a question on my linear algebra assignment this year involving this method except with 4 different variables.
    If you can imagine it took a while (several hours casually doing it) as we had to do all the workings by hand! But it was possibly one of the most memorable questions I've ever done

  • @supreetsahu1964
    @supreetsahu1964 3 года назад +3

    My god that revelation of why there is an "i" at the start of the schrodinger's equation blew my mind