told students in his Numerical Methods class about the Jacobi method. Mittal cited Jacobis strategy as a mathematically elegant but practically useless method, and then moved on to faster methods and more modern topics. Xiang Yang, then a first-year grad student in the class was listening intently.
Mittal mentioned the Jacobi method briefly in a numerical methods class in the fall of 2012, calling it a mathematically elegant but nowadays practically useless method. Xiang Yang, then a first-year grad student in the class, was listening intently.