Halley's Method/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Halley's Method
Halley's Method was devised by Edmund Halley in $1694$.
It uses a similar technique to Newton's Method, and has a faster speed of convergence.
However, this is at the cost of more computation per iteration.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Halley's method
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Halley's method