Associativity of the Secant Method

DOI10.2307/2695354MaRDI QIDQ4417717zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sam Northshield

Publication date 29 July 2003

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/1951/69943, https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1118

zbMATH Keywords

associativityFibonacci numbersNewton-Raphson methodsecant method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39) Numerical computation of solutions to single equations (65H05)

Review text

This is an interesting paper connecting the Newton-Raphson method with the secant method, Fibonacci numbers and the iterates of the functions of the form \(f(x)=(ax^2+bx+c)/(dx+c)\) with not both \(a\) and \(d\) being 0. Through an elegant binary operation and a geometric view the author demonstrates the associativity of the secant method. Illustrative examples are included.

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