{"645175":{"#nid":"645175","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"New Algorithm Breaks Speed Limit for Solving Linear Equations","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGrade school math students are likely familiar with teachers admonishing them not to just guess the answer to a problem. But a new proof establishes that, in fact, the right kind of guessing is sometimes the best way to solve systems of linear equations, one of the bedrock calculations in math. One of the researchers who came up with the new method\u0026nbsp;is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~vempala\/\u0022\u003ESantosh Vempala\u003C\/a\u003E, an adjunct professor in the School of Mathematics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-03-09 21:52:25","changed_gmt":"2021-03-09 21:52:25","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Metz Mayor","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/new-algorithm-breaks-speed-limit-for-solving-linear-equations-20210308\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"168854","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"187257","name":"Santos Vempala"},{"id":"5660","name":"algorithms"},{"id":"187258","name":"linear equations"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}