Summer of Math Exposition

Presented by 3Blue1Brown 3blue1brown

What's the point of matrix multiplication?

A video about matrix multiplication explained with ice cream ratios.


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5.54 Overall score*
61 Rank
35 Votes
9 Comments

Comments

5.3
Consider slowing down a little bit and adding some pauses to allow the viewer to “digest” (pun intended) your content. Th relationship between rows and columns was confusing. Visually it looks like we are mapping milk, sugar and cream to water, butter and sugar. I would try different icons or a different mapping altogether. That said, the part about finding the ideal ice cream ingredient ratio was quite illuminating. I would probably start with this part first as a hook for your viewers and as a motivation about why we would want to use linear algebra for this problem.
3.4
very basic, was not interested
3
It's a quickly paced video, which I like, and it answers a question that a lot of students being introduced to matrices (or maths in general) might have: Where will I ever use this? I personally really didn't find it as interesting though, since I prefer in-depth videos that lean heavier on the maths and cater to an audience with a mathematical background. I nonetheless have to admit that it is very well made and that the animations are well made for following along. Kudos for the good video, that will hopefully reach a wide audience and maybe even interest some students in other mathematical videos.
7.1
This video supplies an intuitive exposition to matrix multiplication and inverse matrices. I would be interested to see how this example applies to further linear algebra concepts such as eigenvalues and eigen vectors. A bit of feedback: The author can slow down a bit when showing the resultant matrices. The video is quite short. So they have the time to slow down to provide the audience time to process the video.
8.2
Very good video, intuitive, fun, useful and concise. It isn't fascinating (for me) though so I won't give it a perfect score
4.1
Good short video. Nice graphics. Good for an audience who has learnt about matrices in an abstract context and need some real life examples of use cases. Biggest downside for me is that viewers might assume that all square matrices are inversible from your video.
7.8
Very intuitive
7.7
First of all, wonderful animations. Second, I loved the way you presented matrix vector multiplication the intuitive way as each component of the vector scaling one of the columns of the matrix rather than the more commonly taught "multiply the rows and columns" method. The presentation was great and I liked the short length of the video. Great job!
6
I thought this was a pretty fun entry with a sense of how multiplication can be applied and a quick introduction to inverses and enjoyed the whimsical tone of it. I think some people might be curious to know what's the point, in terms of why this would be important, or to solve bigger things that do utilize matrices.