Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of computing a matrix inverse using the Newton iteration algorithm. Compared to other algorithms, Newton ...
In 1982, a 21-year-old Chris Espinosa faced a familiar challenge in software design: satisfying Steve Jobs’ exacting eye.
The problem is to calculate a simple zero of a nonlinear function f. We consider rational iterations without memory which use two evaluations of f or its derivatives. It is shown that the optimal ...