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Whittaker's method for systems of non-linear equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

R. A. Nicolaides
Affiliation:
Woolwich Polytechnic, London, S.E.18†

Extract

This paper is concerned with a generalization to n dimensions of a method for obtaining an approximation to a root of an algebraic or transcendental equation. We prove a convergence theorem for the method, and show how the method becomes of considerable practical utility in the case when the Jacobian matrix of the functions constituting the system is strictly diagonally dominant in a neighbourhood.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1969

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