July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
728 pages
18h 38m
English
J.M. McNamee and V.Y. Pan
Whereas Newton’s method involves only the first derivative, methods discussed in this chapter involve the second or higher. The “classical” methods of this type (such as Halley’s, Euler’s, Hansen and Patrick’s, Ostrowski’s, Cauchy’s and Chebyshev’s) are all third order with three evaluations, so are slightly more efficient than Newton’s method. Convergence of some of these methods is discussed, as well as composite variations (some of which have fairly high efficiency). We describe special methods for multiple roots, simultaneous or interval methods, and acceleration techniques. We treat Laguerre’s method, which is known to be globally convergent for all-real-roots. ...
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