Harvard AM205 video 4.3 - Newton and secant methods
Channel: Chris Rycroft
Date: 2020-11-27

Harvard Applied Math 205 is a graduate-level course on scientific computing and numerical methods. In the previous video we introduced the fixed-point iteration for solving nonlinear equations. This video discusses the Newton method, which can be viewed as a particularly effective choice of fixed-point iteration. The secant method is also introduced and both methods are demonstrated via a computer example.

For more information see the main course website at https://people.math.wisc.edu/~chr/am205