Visualization of tensors - part 1

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  • Опубликовано: 21 дек 2022
  • This video visualizes tensors. It shows some introduction to tensor theory and demonstrates it with the Cauchy stress tensor.
    Future parts of this series will show more theory and more examples.
    It talks about the term 'tensor' as used in physics and math. In the field of AI the term 'tensor' was borrowed with a simplified meaning. In AI it simply means a multi-dimensional array. So for example the array "double a[4][6]" (4 by 6 matrix of doubles) is called a second-order tensor, but there's no special relationship to vector spaces, as shown in the video.

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  • @jamierbb
    @jamierbb Год назад +497

    Time to get smart on a Thursday morning.

    • @Neerzzz
      @Neerzzz Год назад +8

      Here its 21:32

    • @bryanb2653
      @bryanb2653 Год назад +5

      Big learn

    • @corrompido7680
      @corrompido7680 Год назад +5

      why of course
      the first coment I see in a completely random maths-physics video is one with homestuck pfp
      sure why not

    • @Aecor
      @Aecor Год назад +1

      Friday baby

    • @justanotherguy469
      @justanotherguy469 Год назад +1

      2:10 a.m. Fri. morning. Lovin it!

  • @HitAndMissLab
    @HitAndMissLab Год назад +252

    This explanation with red and blue spaces is so good.
    It takes usually a whole year of studying to reach this level of intuition, and this video does it all in 10 minutes.
    Thanks for making the effort!

    • @Kumurajiva
      @Kumurajiva Год назад +7

      This is why pure math is simpler than physics, or applied math.

    • @gulamm1
      @gulamm1 Месяц назад

      Pure math may be simpler but how it is applied to understand physical phenomena is more important.

  • @Phi1618033
    @Phi1618033 3 месяца назад +53

    Finally, a proper explanation in plain English. Been trying to wrap my head around this for over a year now.

  • @sethhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
    @sethhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Год назад +344

    This is a wonderful introduction!! This past semester, I took linear algebra and differential equations. Tensors were hiding in the background, as boogeymen that our teacher warned us we would come across later.
    Your visualizations were both beautiful and clear. Excited for the rest of the series!! :)

    • @bencrossley647
      @bencrossley647 Год назад +4

      Worth sharing with your lecturer. They often appreciate a good resource!

    • @juniorcyans2988
      @juniorcyans2988 Год назад +2

      Oh I’m gonna take differential equations this coming semester and linear algebra next semester. This is the first video I watched in 2023! I was wondering where I would encounter tensor, then you leaked a hint😂

    • @bobbwc7011
      @bobbwc7011 Год назад +8

      Tensors are like John Wick ...it's not just the boogeyman, it's the thing you sent to kill the fucking boogeyman.
      Also, this is a very "accessible" introduction via physics and engineering. I've had a mathematician as professor when I took tensor calculus as a university-level engineering scientist.
      An absolute nightmare because the first half of the semester was pure mathematics, tensorproduct, tensor bundles, blargh, and only after a Guantanamo-level of torture - when you had gone blind from all the superscript and subscript indexes - the "practical" stuff started to show itself on the horizon.
      That class "Tensorrechnung and Tensoranalysis für Ingenieure" / "tensor algebra and tensor calculus for engineers" was my happiest 3.0 ("satisfactory", C) ever and I was the third best in class with that result LOL (such results used to be normality at German universities in the old pre-Bologna system).
      Sometimes mathematicians are simply evil people. :D

    • @-danR
      @-danR 11 месяцев назад

      This video is the natural second step after Dan (no relation) Fleisch's video introduction to tensors.

    • @timothyjohnson1511
      @timothyjohnson1511 5 месяцев назад

      Thank you for presenting in dark mode, easy on the eyes. Looking for dark mode presentations of electrodynamics with dipole radiation, and accelerating charge.

  • @davidgoldgruber8541
    @davidgoldgruber8541 Год назад +147

    Best and most compact explanation/visualization of the Cauchy stress tensor I have seen so far. Wish this video had existed a few years ago when I studied the topic at uni.

    • @not2tired
      @not2tired 2 месяца назад

      Studying stress tensors at unicycle!

  • @user-yi7hl8tt2w
    @user-yi7hl8tt2w 3 месяца назад +13

    This is the world's easiest explanation of tensors. I wanted to see it when I was a college student over 30 years ago.

  • @mikip3242
    @mikip3242 Год назад +137

    Finally!!! Someone in RUclips decides to make the concepto of Tensor easier and meaningful to mortals.

    • @justanotherguy469
      @justanotherguy469 Год назад +13

      You know, I was just thinking the same thing, but then it dawned on me that most mortals do not even know what a scalar is.

    • @anjanavabiswas8835
      @anjanavabiswas8835 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@justanotherguy469 Fair enough.

  • @scene2much
    @scene2much Год назад +55

    I've been trying to get a PERFECT understanding of Tensors for decades.... this was Wonderful!

  • @yousefamar288
    @yousefamar288 Год назад +17

    as an engineering student those 12 minutes here have more blessing than a 4 month course of my engineering program in university. Just Perfect

  • @dialectphilosophy
    @dialectphilosophy Год назад +17

    Most intuitive and simple explanation of a tensor you can come across on RUclips!

  • @visualchallenge2413
    @visualchallenge2413 Год назад +35

    It is amazing what you can learn in 12 minutes ! I have no use for this information but I watched this video in order to get rid of the mystification about this subject that bothered me for more than 30 years. Thank you for this great effort of explanation.

  • @AlexBesogonov
    @AlexBesogonov Год назад +7

    This is the best introduction I've seen! People typically try to introduce tensors from the other direction, from the abstract side, and only at the end moving to matrix representation.

  • @adrian_sp6def
    @adrian_sp6def Год назад +3

    The shortest and best vid aboud tensors! I really love short and compact videos like this. I do not have enough time on my life to watch >10min videos. In this video there is only knowledge without unnecessery staff around. BIG THANKS!

  • @laurenwrubleski7204
    @laurenwrubleski7204 Год назад +8

    I've been looking for a good explanation of tensors for years! I'm so excited for the rest of this series!!

  • @rantorakoto8785
    @rantorakoto8785 Год назад +24

    From the bottom of my heart, thank you 😭❤️ you simply did an amazing work. I've been unsuccessfully trying to understand this for 3 years, I eventually dropped out and just moved forward using tensors without having any idea of what it really is, but now, thanks to you, after 11 minutes, It's finally clear to me, so thank you very much.

    • @mathscottage5785
      @mathscottage5785 10 месяцев назад

      Exactly 💯💯💯💯...just amazing...no words...Bravo Bravo......

  • @t3db0t97
    @t3db0t97 5 месяцев назад +2

    Of all the videos I have watched on tensors, this is the first time I've *actually* understood them. Outstanding work!

  • @sumairahmad9464
    @sumairahmad9464 Год назад +31

    Freaking amazing bro. Much appreciated. Can't thank you enough for taking the time out to make this for us!

  • @billvvoods
    @billvvoods Год назад +1

    Awesome visuals and explanations. This is the video I’ve been waiting for all my life. Thanks for producing this.

  • @gabitheancient7664
    @gabitheancient7664 Год назад +3

    you have no idea how good I feel seeing the springs moving with that specific sound, pls never abandon this sound, I need it together with springs, springs are so much cooler with this sound added

  • @evancarpenter
    @evancarpenter Год назад +2

    Holy smokes, this is the explanation that’s making it click for me
    After years of hearing how it’s a map and invariant and all the other things, seeing the relationship between the two spaces and exploring the relationship between the components helps a lot, incredible video!

  • @IAmNotARobotPinkySwear
    @IAmNotARobotPinkySwear 6 месяцев назад +3

    This is like discovering the holy grail of explanation videos.
    Saved, and I'm gonna download an offline copy just in case.
    Thank you so much, subscribed.

  • @eqwerewrqwerqre
    @eqwerewrqwerqre Год назад +7

    Pleaaasseee pleaaasssee post more of this series. There's such a lack of intelligible introductions to tensors on the internet. I've seen eigenchris's videos too and I think this is the best possible addition to his work as it approaches from an entirely different angle (visualization) and is extremely valuable to me. I would be eager to see why EM tensors are antisymmetric or really any continuation of this series, this was a great video. I've subscribed in the hopes of more

  • @joejoejoe3
    @joejoejoe3 Год назад +8

    At the end of my Calc III course a few weeks back I randomly stumped upon the idea of a tensor (namely trying to figure out if ∇𝐅 was meaningful,) so this couldn't have come out a better time. Definitely going to keep up with the series!

  • @justanotherguy469
    @justanotherguy469 Год назад +7

    Great video. It elevates my understanding of tensors to the level of intuition. Love your graphical presentation.

  • @pianojay5146
    @pianojay5146 Год назад +9

    came for tensor, staying for stunning visuals for material mechanics! great job!

  • @avocado1998
    @avocado1998 8 месяцев назад +1

    Best video I've ever watched. So clearly explained and the 3D visualisation is incredibly helpful when you're trying to learn this stuff. It's so hard to learn this just on paper in 2D without animations.

  • @yevgeniygorbachev5152
    @yevgeniygorbachev5152 Год назад +27

    I'm working through the Eigenchris series right now, and I'm really excited to see other math/physics youtubers take a crack at it.

    • @cykkm
      @cykkm Год назад +4

      Eigenchris' lectures are amazing! He disposes with a few common conventions, both in notation (simply AB instead of common A⊗B); and, especially important, coordinate conventions (he doesn't normalize the unit in the direction of θ by 1/r), which makes their action the same as that of partial derivative. They _are_ PD's! The first time I saw that, I thought, wowzers, why do the most textbooks manage to kill this correspondence, so natural? First by tearing the 1/r out of the object, then sticky-taping it to it, because from now on you're bound to carry them together. And they don't mean anything anymore...

    • @justanotherguy469
      @justanotherguy469 Год назад +3

      He is amazing and very detailed.

    • @Oxygenationatom
      @Oxygenationatom 2 месяца назад

      ?

  • @gparizoto
    @gparizoto Год назад +4

    Beautiful physical interpretation of tensors, keep doing this great job!

  • @dank3k
    @dank3k Год назад +8

    This is beyond cool. Please continue with the series!

  • @thomaschiesa8202
    @thomaschiesa8202 Год назад +2

    This deserves a standing ovation, a masterfully excellent video!!!

  • @adamb7088
    @adamb7088 Год назад +5

    OMG!! I do believe I now know how important it is to calculate the Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of a tensor field. Thanks.

  • @tedsheridan8725
    @tedsheridan8725 Год назад +6

    Very cool video. Even after taking two classes involving tensors (years ago), I never fully got them. This was very easy to understand naturally.

  • @davidjones5319
    @davidjones5319 Год назад +1

    Excellent. Best intro to the concept of tensors I’ve seen. Very helpful

  • @Ammar2b
    @Ammar2b Год назад +1

    that's one of the greatest videos on RUclips for mechanical engineers!
    Thank you

  • @marcfruchtman9473
    @marcfruchtman9473 Год назад +3

    Incredible visualization. Thank you for making this video.

  • @DevRajyaguru-lx8pi
    @DevRajyaguru-lx8pi Год назад +2

    Best explanation of the tensors I found After years, Thank you so much!

  • @alexandreboulch5455
    @alexandreboulch5455 3 месяца назад +1

    Best video on the stress tensor I’ve seen so far. Thanks!

  • @IoldxmanI
    @IoldxmanI Год назад +2

    This is the best explanation I have come across. Please release the second part.

  • @enricolucarelli816
    @enricolucarelli816 Год назад +3

    Superb. This is the kind of videos that expand my mind. 👏👏👏👏👏

  • @fitness60plus52
    @fitness60plus52 8 месяцев назад +1

    you know what? this is the first video ever (among zillions) that made me grasp what a tensor is about. 👍👌

  • @alfahad7433
    @alfahad7433 11 месяцев назад +1

    awesome! awesome! awesome! For the first time I understood the topic a bit. Please continue the series as I believe that there are a huge number of students feeling like me...🙏🙏🙏

  • @KalebPeters99
    @KalebPeters99 Год назад +1

    This is such a remarkable introduction. Bravo 👏👏👏

  • @kalpitkatpara2720
    @kalpitkatpara2720 9 месяцев назад +1

    My mind is completely blown by your explanation!!! amazing work! you are a real gem to humanity! 💕✌✌👍👍

  • @wanderrodrigues499
    @wanderrodrigues499 Год назад +1

    Didática excelente! Vou assistir todos os vídeos do canal!

  • @khajiit92
    @khajiit92 Год назад +2

    always struggled with understanding tensors and this is the first one that's making it click, thanks so much!

  • @Midazc
    @Midazc 7 месяцев назад +1

    Such a clean, concise explanation and visualization. Well done!

  • @LucyHealthy97
    @LucyHealthy97 Год назад +2

    You have a beautiful brain! I feel so excited to watch your video. Please post visualization of tensors - part 2. I'm waiting for it

  • @megri3441
    @megri3441 Год назад +2

    Thank you for this excellent demonstration. I'm able to imagine how machine learning models learn from the data. It was looking like a magical mystrious for me.

  • @grindstm
    @grindstm Год назад +1

    This is the tensor visualization I have been waiting for. Thanks!

  • @robocop30301
    @robocop30301 Год назад +3

    This is the greatest video that was ever made.

  • @michaelblankenau6598
    @michaelblankenau6598 8 месяцев назад +2

    Very well explained . Making clear what the geniuses have always understood .

  • @christopherneufelt8971
    @christopherneufelt8971 Год назад +8

    Did you have enough? Are you happy? Finished? I am ready to have tears in my eyes, this is probably the best description of a complicated subject that I ever seen. Really beautifully made with clarity and insight. Bravo, bravo.

  • @bassamxp
    @bassamxp Год назад +1

    This is totally magnificent ... thank you. I'll make sure my students follow this video and the channel

  • @floppy8568
    @floppy8568 Год назад +1

    I'm excited for part 2! You make great anumations! Keep it up!

  • @Edu888777
    @Edu888777 Год назад +2

    Really good vídeo, one of the best!
    Very didactic.
    Thank You !

  • @maximpavlov5379
    @maximpavlov5379 Год назад +1

    A very intersting and comprehensive explanation!

  • @timothywelk3244
    @timothywelk3244 5 месяцев назад +2

    This is incredible. I wish I had your RUclips page when I was in college.

  • @rodrigomunoz6496
    @rodrigomunoz6496 Год назад +5

    Thanks! I feel my IQ has increased by 50% in just 10 minutes

  • @vanderkarl3927
    @vanderkarl3927 Год назад +2

    I don't know why I wasn't subscribed before considering I watched and enjoyed all the halting problem and Bell Inequalities related videos!

  • @LuisGarcia1992_
    @LuisGarcia1992_ Год назад +1

    Most excellent explanations and visualization!!

  • @NoNTr1v1aL
    @NoNTr1v1aL Год назад +3

    Absolutely amazing video!

  • @gomdangdang
    @gomdangdang Год назад +1

    You are amazing. I heard that tensor is the object which does not depend on change of coordinate. Now it is somehow clear to me, but I am really looking forward to the next video. Thank you!!

  • @joserodrigomorenolopez6651
    @joserodrigomorenolopez6651 Год назад +1

    Excelent video, makes visual everything that needs to be visualized. Congrats

  • @traderalex655
    @traderalex655 Год назад +1

    Great explanation and demonstration. Visualization is key to understanding.

  • @fbkintanar
    @fbkintanar Год назад +1

    Nice visualization, it makes the details a lot more memorable.

  • @rohan.fernando
    @rohan.fernando Год назад +1

    Excellent visualisation and clear explanation.

  • @carlosfelipe766
    @carlosfelipe766 Год назад +1

    Good job buddy, keep it up. Looking forward to part 2!

  • @Rodrigoviverosa
    @Rodrigoviverosa 3 месяца назад +2

    FINALLY I understand Tensors, after 10 years of gratuation and all day watching ton of videos on YT haha, thanks!!!

  • @jaygokhale2133
    @jaygokhale2133 9 месяцев назад +1

    Really high-quality explanation. Thanks!

  • @EMLtheViewer
    @EMLtheViewer Год назад +1

    I cannot stress enough how much this video helped me. (pun unintended, but welcome)
    Just reading about tensors was not enough, and I always wondered what exactly made them different from matrices. Thanks for this explanation!

  • @jaybingham3711
    @jaybingham3711 Год назад +1

    Wow...exceptional. So well done. Kudos.

  • @robibezerra
    @robibezerra Год назад +2

    Really good introduction!!!

  • @kimchi_taco
    @kimchi_taco Год назад +2

    holy cow. I realized I didn't understand tensor in my Physics degree. Brilliant work! Thanks!

  • @apoorvmishra6992
    @apoorvmishra6992 11 месяцев назад +3

    Eagerly waiting for part 2 buddy....

  • @tf2excession
    @tf2excession Год назад +1

    This is an incredible video, I see so many people have struggles with tensors & change of basis. If you can bring in some intuition for the universal property as well, this will be the single canonical series to explain them

  • @najahsaeed2006
    @najahsaeed2006 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you so much for the great effort in this video, all the best, and keep it up

  • @ale8088
    @ale8088 Год назад +1

    Wow! Thanks a lot for this valuable content Sir!
    "2 vector spaces" related together by a correspondence between "label", the weighted raw combination of the matrix to obtain the vector that acts
    on a particular inclined slice (matrix product: namely a linear transformation) and
    the example of the sphere, where every direction in the first space have a realted direction in the second space,
    make finally reasonable understand why, in abstract math, tensors are defined directly like linear map between dual spaces.
    Whith only a table of 9 number (6 due to simmetry of this pshysic problem) it is possible to manage any slice no matter its orientation.
    Obvious: only if we assume hypothesis of linearity is true (and locally it is).
    If we think about this, it results amazing how mr Cauchy, a great Franch engeneer, in middle of 1800, realized all those ideas
    without linear algebra, rather founding linear algebra itself and matrix calculus.

  • @petersimon985
    @petersimon985 13 дней назад +1

    Hi, Thank you for making this great effort. Unselfish and straightforward video. ❤

  • @Lleruelu
    @Lleruelu 11 месяцев назад

    FANTASTIC INTRO!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

  • @gorgolyt
    @gorgolyt 6 месяцев назад +1

    Great explanation, fantastic work.

  • @leonstenutz6003
    @leonstenutz6003 Год назад +1

    Appreciate your work and this video so deeply. Thank you!

  • @DrDeuteron
    @DrDeuteron 6 месяцев назад +2

    Great video for engineers. If you move beyond vector a arrows, and say, replace “Z” with cosine theta, then vectors are the things that can be rotated amongst themselves, and require a 360 degree rotation to remain unchanged. There are 3 of them.
    Rank 2 tensors are such things that require 180 deg. There are five of them.
    Rank 3 require 120 degrees, there are 7 of them.
    Keep going, and you have the spherical harmonics, which are a great way to visualize tensors, since you can draw them.
    Btw: the reason we even care about vectors and tensors is exactly these property under rotation, and ps: there are things that require 720 degrees of rotation to be unchanged. Hint: there are 2 of them.

  • @Kart-sl2qq
    @Kart-sl2qq Год назад +3

    This video was just sensational, thank you

  • @tinkeringengr
    @tinkeringengr Год назад +1

    Nice animations! Looking forward to more!

  • @Songvbm
    @Songvbm Год назад +2

    Definitely a valuable video tutorial for me. My request to the uploader is to provide the visualization of "tensors applied in the domain of Statistics & ML", if possible. Thank you.

  • @aliyasulfi9366
    @aliyasulfi9366 7 дней назад +2

    Thanks, finally i am able to understand tensors for the first time

  • @JoeyFaller
    @JoeyFaller 4 дня назад +1

    Beautiful video, especially in showing the construction of a tensor space as the product of vector spaces

  • @dakkumar
    @dakkumar Год назад +1

    Very well done Udi! Thank you!

  • @BernardoMartins_
    @BernardoMartins_ 2 месяца назад

    Beautiful clarity. Masterpiece.

  • @santiospina4504
    @santiospina4504 Год назад +2

    Best explanation out there!

  • @colafish2152
    @colafish2152 Год назад +2

    Amazing video, it give a vivid visual explanation to some very abstract mathematics-physics concept. Actually, I spend lot's of time to study these concept by myself, but I still can't fully understand these concept, what I learn from this video it worth then these book i read.

  • @us-Bahn
    @us-Bahn 7 дней назад +1

    There’s room for much more graphic instruction in physics & math than what is conventionally used.

  • @saguapura
    @saguapura Год назад +1

    Thanks you, I was traying to understand this concept, your explanation help a lot, thanks again.

  • @tim40gabby25
    @tim40gabby25 Год назад +7

    Hi. As a complete curious amateur, this was perfectly clear. Well done.

  • @garrygoodrege255
    @garrygoodrege255 Год назад +1

    Wow..amazing animation..and explanation.

  • @SwarthmoreDB
    @SwarthmoreDB 3 месяца назад +1

    Very very informational! Subscribed, and thank you for the lesson! 👍🏻😊

  • @preetamchowdhury4713
    @preetamchowdhury4713 Год назад

    one of the best videos on tensor...thank you...

  • @safaahamdan5668
    @safaahamdan5668 3 месяца назад +1

    This video is most credible great fantastic representation of tensor ❤❤❤

  • @shutupimlearning
    @shutupimlearning Год назад +1

    what an awesome video, i hope i get to work with tensors soon in my physics studies!

  • @recuehphit166
    @recuehphit166 8 месяцев назад

    loved this video! really got the 'click' to understand what a tensor was!! thank you so much.