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Famous PDEs, Laplace's equation

Another familiar equation from electrostatics is Laplace's equation, which looks similar to the wave equation in Eq. (1) except that we have set A=0 \begin{equation} \tag{3} \frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial x^2}+\frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial y^2}=0, \end{equation} or if we have a finite electric charge represented by a charge density \rho(\mathbf{x}) we have the familiar Poisson equation \begin{equation} \tag{4} \frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial x^2}+\frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial y^2}=-4\pi \rho(\mathbf{x}). \end{equation}