A synonym for Newton’s method.
An algorithmic method for constructing a sequence of approximations to a root of an equation. Suppose it is desired to solve the equation f(x)=0 and that x1 is an approximate value for the root of the equation. If we write f′(xn) for the value of the derivative of f(x) (with respect to x) evaluated at the point x=xn, the sequence defined by
usually converges to a root of the equation. It is based on constructing the tangent to the curve y=f(x) at the point (xn, f(xn)), and taking xn+1 to be the x-coordinate of the point where this tangent cuts the x-axis.
- bottleneck problems
- bottom
- bottoming
- bottom line
- bottom quark
- bottoms
- bottomset beds
- bottom-up development
- bottom-up nanofabrication
- bottom-up parsing
- bottom water
- botulinum cook
- botulinum toxin
- Boudicca (died 62 ad)
- boudin
- boudinage
- Bougainville, Louis Antoine de (1729–1811)
- Bouguer anomaly
- Bouguer correction
- Bouguer gravity map
- Bouguer, Pierre
- Bouguer, Pierre (1698–1758)
- Boulanger, Georges Ernest (1837–91)
- boulder
- boulder clay