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An illustration of Newton's method. In numerical analysis, the Newton–Raphson method, also known simply as Newton's method, named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, is a root-finding algorithm which produces successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real-valued function.
Newton's method uses curvature information (i.e. the second derivative) to take a more direct route. In calculus, Newton's method (also called Newton–Raphson) is an iterative method for finding the roots of a differentiable function, which are solutions to the equation =.
If instead one performed Newton-Raphson iterations beginning with an estimate of 10, it would take two iterations to get to 3.66, matching the hyperbolic estimate. For a more typical case like 75, the hyperbolic estimate of 8.00 is only 7.6% low, and 5 Newton-Raphson iterations starting at 75 would be required to obtain a more accurate result.
The backward Euler method is an implicit method, meaning that we have to solve an equation to find y n+1. One often uses fixed-point iteration or (some modification of) the Newton–Raphson method to achieve this.
An example of using Newton–Raphson method to solve numerically the equation f(x) = 0. In mathematics, to solve an equation is to find its solutions, which are the values (numbers, functions, sets, etc.) that fulfill the condition stated by the equation, consisting generally of two expressions related by an equals sign.
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The line-search method first finds a descent direction along which the objective function will be reduced, and then computes a step size that determines how far should move along that direction. The descent direction can be computed by various methods, such as gradient descent or quasi-Newton method. The step size can be determined either ...
If we compare Newton's method with the secant method, we see that Newton's method converges faster (order 2 against order the golden ratio φ ≈ 1.6). [2] However, Newton's method requires the evaluation of both and its derivative ′ at every step, while the secant method only requires the evaluation of . Therefore, the secant method may ...