Some higher-order modifications of Newton's method for solving nonlinear equations (Q955070)

The authors deal with the problem of solving nonlinear equations. For this purpose, they construct some higher-order modifications of Newton's method which increase the order of convergence of existing iterative methods by one or two or three units. To increase the order, the proposed methods add only one additional function evaluation at the point iterated by the existing iteration formula. Some of the presented methods are compared to some known methods of the same order and some examples are provided. It is shown that they can be competitive to those methods and also improve the existing methods. The approach presented can be continuously applied in order to improve any existing iteration formula.