gibson:teaching:fall-2016:math753:bisection

Math 753/853 Bisection

The bisection method is an algorithm for finding roots of a nonlinear equation $f(x) = 0$ , where $f$ is continuous and $x$ is one-dimensional. Here are a few excellent online resources for the bisection method.

Bisection method, Wikipedia. Good explanation, provides pseudo-code, some great concrete examples, and error analysis.
Bisection Wolfram Alpha. Terse, gives error analysis.
Bisection method, sosmath.com. This one has a nice animation.

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