Fractal basins of attraction associated with a damped Newton's method

SIAM Review

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 102-109

  Epureanu, Bogdan I ^a   Greenside, Henry S ^b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Damping; Fractal basins of attraction; Newton's method

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FRACTALS; POLYNOMIALS;

NEWTON'S METHOD; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032010848     PISSN: 00361445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036144596310033     Document Type: Article

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