Olivia Newton-John was worried about letting people hear her body talk. The singer, who won countless hearts as Sandy in "Grease" and charmed many more as music’s wholesome girl next door, was ...

Determination of a suitable initial estimate for a root of an equation ƒ(x) = 0 by means of computing the roots of a sequence of related equations is described.

Implementations of Grid Search and Newton-Raphson methods for numerical optimization. It includes Python scripts to compare their performance in maximizing mathematical functions ...

Abstract: The Newton-Raphson method is approached from a control perspective, leading to variants of this classical algorithm. One variant, a "variable structure" Newton-like algorithm, is shown to ...