3Blue1Brown Series
3Blue1Brown Series
3Blue1Brown Series
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Overview
3Blue1Brown is a channel about animating math, in all senses of the word animate.
Status: Returning Series
First Air Date: 2016-08-06
Runtime: Unknown
Director: Grant Sanderson
Writer: Unknown
Episodes - Season 1
Vectors, what even are they?
Vectors, what even are they?
Episode 1
Kicking off the linear algebra lessons, let's make sure we're all on the same page about how specifically to think about vectors in this context.
Linear combinations, span, and basis vectors
Linear combinations, span, and basis vectors
Episode 2
The fundamental vector concepts of span, linear combinations, linear dependence, and bases all center on one surprisingly important operation: Scaling several vectors and adding them together.
Linear transformations and matrices
Linear transformations and matrices
Episode 3
Matrices can be thought of as transforming space, and understanding how this work is crucial for understanding many other ideas that follow in linear algebra.
Matrix multiplication as composition
Matrix multiplication as composition
Episode 4
Multiplying two matrices represents applying one transformation after another. Many facts about matrix multiplication become much clearer once you digest this fact.
Three-dimensional linear transformations
Three-dimensional linear transformations
Episode 5
What do 3d linear transformations look like? Having talked about the relationship between matrices and transformations in the last two videos, this one extends those same concepts to three dimensions.
The determinant
The determinant
Episode 6
The determinant of a linear transformation measures how much areas/volumes change during the transformation.
Inverse matrices, column space and null space
Inverse matrices, column space and null space
Episode 7
How to think about linear systems of equations geometrically. The focus here is on gaining an intuition for the concepts of inverse matrices, column space, rank and null space, but the computation of those constructs is not discussed.
Nonsquare matrices as transformations between dimensions
Nonsquare matrices as transformations between dimensions
Episode 8
Because people asked, this is a video briefly showing the geometric interpretation of non-square matrices as linear transformations that go between dimensions.
Dot products and duality
Dot products and duality
Episode 9
Dot products are a nice geometric tool for understanding projection. But now that we know about linear transformations, we can get a deeper feel for what's going on with the dot product, and the connection between its numerical computation and its geometric interpretation.
Cross products
Cross products
Episode 10
This covers the main geometric intuition behind the 2d and 3d cross products.
Cross products in the light of linear transformations
Cross products in the light of linear transformations
Episode 11
For anyone who wants to understand the cross product more deeply, this video shows how it relates to a certain linear transformation via duality. This perspective gives a very elegant explanation of why the traditional computation of a dot product corresponds to its geometric interpretation.
Cramer's rule, explained geometrically
Cramer's rule, explained geometrically
Episode 12
This rule seems random to many students, but it has a beautiful reason for being true.
Change of basis
Change of basis
Episode 13
How do you translate back and forth between coordinate systems that use different basis vectors?
Eigenvectors and eigenvalues
Eigenvectors and eigenvalues
Episode 14
A visual understanding of eigenvectors, eigenvalues, and the usefulness of an eigenbasis.
A quick trick for computing eigenvalues
A quick trick for computing eigenvalues
Episode 15
How to write the eigenvalues of a 2x2 matrix just by looking at it.
Abstract vector spaces
Abstract vector spaces
Episode 16
This is really the reason linear algebra is so powerful.
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