A simple modification of Newton's method to achieve convergence of order 1 + √2

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 20-25

  McDougall, Trevor J ^a   Wotherspoon, Simon J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Iterative methods; Newton's method; Non linear equations; Root finding

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE ORDER; DERIVATIVE EVALUATION; FASTER CONVERGENCE; MODIFIED NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; NEWTON'S METHODS; ROOTFINDING; SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS; UNIVARIATE FUNCTIONS;

ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD;

EID: 84889101894     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aml.2013.10.008     Document Type: Article

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