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From: kchen@Apple.COM (Kok Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Numerical Methods for Poynomial Root Finding?
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Date: 15 Jan 91 17:23:02 GMT
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jkenyon@css.itd.umich.edu (Jim Kenyon) writes:

>Just received a copy of "Numerical Recipies" by Press, Flannery, et al 
>and couldn't be happier -- strongly suggest this book for anyone with
>numerically intensive computing needs!


Don't know if this has been mentioned yet; but Acton's book "Numerical
Methods that (almost) Work" spends a large amount of paper discussing 
root solving methods.  Highly recommended if you want to learn such
techniques, instead of just using canned routines.

And, if anyone wants to plow through a few inches of manuscript, 
Wilkinson's "The Algebraic Eigenvalue Problem" has some good hints
on root solving too.

Regards,

Kok Chen, AA6TY				kchen@apple.com
Apple Computer, Inc.