Lecture 2.1: Outline
Lecture 2.1: Rootfinding
-  Convergence rates
 -  Bracketing and bisection 
 -  Secant, false position, 
 -  Ridders' method, Brent's method
 -  Using derivatives: Newton-Raphson
 -  Fractals
 -  Deflation of polynomials
 -  n-dimensions: difficulties
 
 Postscript of lecture
master reference list