Lanczos algorithm

English

Etymology

Devised by Cornelius Lanczos.

Proper noun

Lanczos algorithm

1. (computing theory) An iterative algorithm that is an adaptation of power methods to find the most useful eigenvalues and eigenvectors of an nth-order linear system with a limited number of operations, m, where m is much smaller than n.

Related terms

• Lanczos approximation
• Lanczos potential
• Lanczos resampling