Si f : Ω → R {\displaystyle f:\Omega \to \mathbb {R} } a l'é na fonsion C 2 {\displaystyle C^{2}} definìa ansima a n'ansem duvert Ω ⊆ R n {\displaystyle \Omega \subseteq \mathbb {R} ^{n}} , as ciama laplacian d' f {\displaystyle f} la fonsion Δ f = ∑ i = 1 n ∂ 2 f ∂ x i 2 {\displaystyle \Delta f=\sum _{i=1}^{n}{\frac {\partial ^{2}f}{\partial x_{i}^{2}}}} . La notassion Δ {\displaystyle \Delta } a ven da Gabriel Lamé.