#numerical linear algebra

[darthfoil]

John Urschel

Urschel began a Ph.D. in mathematics at MIT in 2016 while playing football in the NFL for the Ravens. MIT does not allow Ph.D. students to study part-time so Urschel did both!

During the 2016 NFL season, after a home game Urschel studied from 5:30pm Sunday to Tuesday 11am when football practice began, taking correspondence classes and focusing on spectral graph theory, numerical linear algebra, and machine learning.

Urschel was named to Forbes' "30 Under 30" list of outstanding young scientists. His Forbes biography states "Urschel has published six peer-reviewed mathematics papers to date and has three more ready for review. That's a respectable publication history for someone who only started pursuing their PhD at MIT this year. He's won academic awards for his math prowess. All this while playing guard for the Baltimore Ravens."

[alanshemper]

On March 30, 2022, ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named Jack J. Dongarra the recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M.Turing Award for p

Open-source linear algebra software FTW!

This shit really was a game changer. Before LINPACK/LAPACK, you had to license commercial software like MA27 from the Harwell Subroutine Library (now, of course, superseded by MA57).

Now you can just

pip install numpy