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R. Bank
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J. Stoer
R. Varga
H. Yserentant
Peter Deuflhard
Newton Methods
for Nonlinear Problems
AffineInvarianceandAdaptiveAlgorithms
With 49 Figures
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Peter Deuflhard
Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)
Takustr. 7
14195 Berlin, Germany
and
Freie Universität Berlin
Dept. of Mathematics puter Science
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Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 65-01, 65-02, 65F10, 65F20,
65H10, 65H20, 65J15, 65L10, 65L60, 65N30, 65N55, 65P30
ISSN 0179-3632
ISBN 978-3-540-21099-7 (hardcover) e-ISBN 978-3-642-23899-4
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DOI -3-642-23899-4
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Preface
In 1970, my former academic teacher Roland Bulirsch gave an exercise to
his students, which indicated the fascinating invariance o