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Improving RootSearch Package

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg31584] Improving RootSearch Package
• From: "Ersek, Ted R" <ErsekTR at navair.navy.mil>
• Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 03:42:05 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello Group,
A few weeks ago I posted a robust RootSearch package at 
http://www.mathsource.com/Content/Enhancements/Numerics/0211-734

Johannes Ludsteck informed me of a rare situation in which RootSearch had a
lot of trouble and would produce toublesome error messages.  I have since
corrected a bug in RootSearch that was the cause of the problem. I sent
MathSource an update to my package, but the new version hasn't yet been
posted. In the mean time I can send the new version directly to anyone who
wants it.

I would also like to enhance RootSearch so it can try to find all roots of a
system of equations (for a specified range of values).  A good
implementation of this would probably use Broyden's method 
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BroydensMethod.html
and possibly a Line Search algorithm as explained in Setion 9.7 of the
polular book Numerical Recipes in C.  However, I am having a hard time
understanding these algorithms.  Please get in touch with me if you would
like assist me in implementing one or both of these algorithms in
Mathematica. 

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Regards,
Ted Ersek
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