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  2. Root-finding algorithm - Wikipedia

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    However, most root-finding algorithms do not guarantee that they will find all roots of a function, and if such an algorithm does not find any root, that does not necessarily mean that no root exists. Most numerical root-finding methods are iterative methods, producing a sequence of numbers that ideally converges towards a root as a limit.

  3. Newton's method - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Zero of a function - Wikipedia

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    It follows that the solutions of such an equation are exactly the zeros of the function . In other words, a "zero of a function" is precisely a "solution of the equation obtained by equating the function to 0", and the study of zeros of functions is exactly the same as the study of solutions of equations.

  5. Secant method - Wikipedia

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    In higher dimensions, the full set of partial derivatives required for Newton's method, that is, the Jacobian matrix, may become much more expensive to calculate than the function itself. If, however, we consider parallel processing for the evaluation of the derivative or derivatives, Newton's method can be faster in clock time though still ...

  6. Muller's method - Wikipedia

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    Muller's method is a root-finding algorithm, a numerical method for solving equations of the form f(x) = 0.It was first presented by David E. Muller in 1956.. Muller's method proceeds according to a third-order recurrence relation similar to the second-order recurrence relation of the secant method.

  7. Descartes' rule of signs - Wikipedia

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    The number of positive real roots is at most the number of sign changes in the sequence of polynomial's coefficients (omitting zero coefficients), and the difference between the root count and the sign change count is always even. In particular, when the number of sign changes is zero or one, then there are exactly zero or one positive roots.

  8. Critical point (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    A critical point at which the Hessian matrix is nonsingular is said to be nondegenerate, and the signs of the eigenvalues of the Hessian determine the local behavior of the function. In the case of a function of a single variable, the Hessian is simply the second derivative, viewed as a 1×1-matrix, which is nonsingular if and only if it is not ...

  9. Zeros and poles - Wikipedia

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    Its zeros in the left halfplane are all the negative even integers, and the Riemann hypothesis is the conjecture that all other zeros are along Re(z) = 1/2. In a neighbourhood of a point z 0 , {\displaystyle z_{0},} a nonzero meromorphic function f is the sum of a Laurent series with at most finite principal part (the terms with negative index ...