Finding the roots of a non-linear equation: history and reliability

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-46615-6_5zbMath1408.65003OpenAlexW2565051742MaRDI QIDQ4562870

Roger Godard

Publication date: 18 December 2018

Published in: Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46615-6_5

zbMATH Keywords

Newton-Raphson methodroundoff errorsecant methodbisection method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation of solutions to single equations (65H05) History of numerical analysis (65-03)

Uses Software

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