Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization

[ gram-shmit ]
/ ˈgræmˈʃmɪt /

noun Mathematics.

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

Origin of Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization

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