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Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization

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[gram-shmit] / ˈgræmˈʃmɪt /

noun

Mathematics.
  1. a process for constructing an orthogonal basis for a Euclidean space, given any basis for the space.


Etymology

Origin of Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization

Named after Jörgen Pedersen Gram (1850–1916), Danish mathematician, and Erhard Schmidt (1876–1959), German mathematician

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