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Numerical Algorithms
Published in: Numerical Algorithms 4/2020

18-05-2019 | Original Paper

Computational science in the eighteenth century. Test cases for the methods of Newton, Raphson, and Halley: 1685 to 1745

Author: Trond Steihaug

Published in: Numerical Algorithms | Issue 4/2020

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Abstract

This is an overview of examples and problems posed in the late 1600s up to the mid 1700s for the purpose of testing or explaining the two different implementations of the Newton-Raphson method, Newton’s method as described by Wallis in 1685, Raphson’s method from 1690, and Halley’s method from 1694 for solving nonlinear equations. It is demonstrated that already in 1745, it was shown that the methods of Newton and Raphson were the same but implemented in different ways.
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Metadata
Title
Computational science in the eighteenth century. Test cases for the methods of Newton, Raphson, and Halley: 1685 to 1745
Author
Trond Steihaug
Publication date
18-05-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Numerical Algorithms / Issue 4/2020
Print ISSN: 1017-1398
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9265
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11075-019-00724-8

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