There has been much effort to improve the runtime of matrix multiplication. The trivial algorithm multiplies n×n matrices in O(n) time. Strassen (’69) surprised everyone by giving an O(n) time algorithm. This began a long line of improvements until in 1986, Coppersmith and Winograd achieved O(n). After 24 years of no progress, in 2010 Andrew Stothers, a graduate student in Edinburgh, improved t...
