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- Let be twice continuously differentiable on .
- Define local and global minimum for .
- Define Newton's method for minimization of .
- Show that the function defined on by
has a unique global minimizer at but that, for any nonzero initial
point , the Newton's Method sequence
with
initial point for minimizing diverges.
Henry Wolkowicz
2001-02-28