19th Century Math Tactic Gets a Makeover--and Yields Answers Up to 200 Times Faster
Monday, June 30, 2014 - 12:30
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.