| Java Number Cruncher: The Java Programmer's Guide to Numerical Computing By Ronald Mak | Table of Contents | | Chapter 5. Finding Roots | References Atkinson, L.V., and P.J. Harley, An Introduction to Numerical Methods with Pascal , London: Addison-Wesley, 1983. Chapra, Seven C., and Raymond P. Canale, Numerical Methods for Engineers , 3rd edition, New York: WCB/McGraw-Hill, 1998. Conte, Samuel D., and Carl de Boor, Elementary Numerical Analysis: An Algorithmic Approach , New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980. Scheid, Francis, Numerical Analysis , New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988. Woodford, C., and C. Phillips, Numerical Methods with Worked Examples , London: Chapman and Hall, 1997. The topic of finding roots is covered well in these books. See Chapters 5 and 6 in the Chapra book, Chapter 3 in the Conte book, and Chapter 2 in the Woodford book. The Chapra and Conte books discuss error analyses of the various root-finding algorithms. Conte also includes proofs of their convergence rates. Some of this chapter's example functions, especially the ones for fixed-point iteration, are from these books (some modified). See Section 3.1.4 in Atkinson and Chapter 25 in Scheid. |