Iterative methods for solving nonlinear equations with finitely many roots in an interval (Q421842)

A nonlinear equation \(f(x) = 0\) having finitely many roots in general, in a given interval, is considered. Based on the so-called numerical integration method (NIM) the author develops a new iterative method to find all of the roots. The paper is organized as follows. The first Section is preliminaries. In Section 2 a basic algorithm combining NIM and existing iterative methods for a unique simple root in an interval is studied. In the next section the method to the case of finitely many roots via partitioning the given interval is extended. In Section 4 the method for finding multiple roots by using a transformation is generalized and, additionally it is shown that it is also available to find the extrema of \(f(x)\). The usefulness of the proposed method by performing several numerical examples is demonstrated. In the last section the method with a concluding remark is summarized.