Day 16 in Mat360

Today:

• Exam 1 is Friday

• No problems to collect. One problem from 2.4 will appear on your exam. You will not need to turn in your 2.4 homework.

• There will be a study session Thursday, 8:00 pm, for an hour or so. When no more people are present, I'll leave, so if you're going to be late let me know!

• Questions/Comments on old stuff?
  • (Bob wins the prize!)
  • Award Ceremony

• Section 2.4:
  • section 2.4 summary

  • Summary of cubic convergence

  • Problem of multiplicity - letting Newton handle it in two different ways:
    • with known multiplicity
    • without known multiplicity

• section 2.6 summary: Muller's method
  • using quadratics rather than linear functions
  • deflation to handle multiple roots (causes increased rounding errors)