19th century math tactic gets a makeover—and yields answers up to 200 times faster
Monday, June 30, 2014 - 12:00
in Mathematics & Economics
A relic from long before the age of supercomputers, the 169-year-old math strategy called the Jacobi iterative method is widely dismissed today as too slow to be useful. But thanks to a curious, numbers-savvy Johns Hopkins engineering student and his professor, it may soon get a new lease on life.