Newton Raphson Method Essay

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Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest Physicist and Mathematician who has ever walked on planet earth.He is well-known for formulating the three laws of motion knowns as “Newton's laws of motion”, as well as the inventor of Calculus etc. Joseph Raphson was one of the greatest Mathematician known best for Raphson method which was published in 1690.It appeared that Isaac Newton had developed an identical formula known as the Newton's method that he wrote in 1671 but this method could not be published until 1736, roughly 50 years after Raphson's Analysis.Since they both developed their method's independently, the method is now known as Newton-Raphson method.

Problem Statement

Newton-Raphson method is of use when it comes to approximating the root or roots of an equation.
For a normal quadratic equation there is a well known formula to find the roots. There is a formula to find the roots of a 3rd and fourth degree equation but it can be troubling to find those roots, but if the function f is a polynomial of the 5th degree there is no formula that can enable us to find the root...

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