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Preface to Classics Edition | p. xv |
Preface | p. xix |
Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
Glossary of Symbols | p. xxv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Background Material | |
Sample Problems | |
Two-Point Boundary Value Problems | p. 9 |
Elliptic Boundary Value Problems | p. 14 |
Integral Equations | p. 18 |
Minimization Problems | p. 21 |
Two-Dimensional Variational Problems | p. 26 |
Linear Algebra | |
A Review of Basic Matrix Theory | p. 34 |
Norms | p. 38 |
Inverses | p. 45 |
Partial Ordering and Nonnegative Matrices | p. 51 |
Analysis | |
Derivatives and Other Basic Concepts | p. 59 |
Mean-Value Theorems | p. 68 |
Second Derivatives | p. 74 |
Convex Functionals | p. 82 |
Nonconstructive Existence Theorems | |
Gradient Mappings and Minimization | |
Minimizers, Critical Points, and Gradient Mappings | p. 93 |
Uniqueness Theorems | p. 98 |
Existence Theorems | p. 104 |
Applications | p. 110 |
Contractions and the Continuation Property | |
Contractions | p. 119 |
The Inverse and Implicit Function Theorems | p. 125 |
The Continuation Property | p. 132 |
Monotone Operators and Other Applications | p. 141 |
The Degree of a Mapping | |
Analytic Definition of the Degree | p. 147 |
Properties of the Degree | p. 156 |
Basic Existence Theorems | p. 161 |
Monotone and Coercive Mappings | p. 165 |
Additional Analytic Results | p. 169 |
Iterative Methods | |
General Iterative Methods | |
Newton's Method and Some of Its Variations | p. 181 |
Secant Methods | p. 189 |
Modification Methods | p. 206 |
Generalized Linear Methods | p. 214 |
Continuation Methods | p. 230 |
General Discussion of Iterative Methods | p. 236 |
Minimization Methods | |
Paraboloid Methods | p. 240 |
Descent Methods | p. 243 |
Steplength Algorithms | p. 249 |
Conjugate-Direction Methods | p. 260 |
The Gauss-Newton and Related Methods | p. 267 |
Convergence of the Conjugate Gradient and the Davidon--Fletcher--Powell Algorithms for Quadratic Functionals | p. 271 |
Search Methods for One-Dimensional Minimization | p. 275 |
Local Convergence | |
Rates of Convergence--General | |
The Quotient Convergence Factors | p. 281 |
The Root Convergence Factors | p. 287 |
Relations between the R and Q Convergence Factors | p. 295 |
One-Step Stationary Methods | |
Basic Results | p. 299 |
Newton's Method and Some of Its Modifications | p. 310 |
Generalized Linear Iterations | p. 320 |
Continuation Methods | p. 334 |
Comparison Theorems and Optimal [omega] for SOR Methods | p. 341 |
Multistep Methods and Additional One-Step Methods | |
Introduction and First Results | p. 347 |
Consistent Approximations | p. 355 |
The General Secant Method | p. 369 |
Semilocal and Global Convergence | |
Contractions and Nonlinear Majorants | |
Some Generalizations of the Contraction Theorem | p. 383 |
Approximate Contractions and Sequences of Contractions | p. 393 |
Iterated Contractions and Nonexpansions | p. 400 |
Nonlinear Majorants | p. 409 |
More General Majorants | p. 415 |
Newton's Method and Related Iterations | p. 421 |
Convergence under Partial Ordering | |
Contractions under Partial Ordering | p. 432 |
Monotone Convergence | p. 441 |
Convexity and Newton's Method | p. 447 |
Newton-SOR Interactions | p. 456 |
M-Functions and Nonlinear SOR Processes | p. 464 |
Convergence of Minimization Methods | |
Introduction and Convergence of Sequences | p. 473 |
Steplength Analysis | p. 479 |
Gradient and Gradient-Related Methods | p. 494 |
Newton-Type Methods | p. 501 |
Conjugate-Direction Methods | p. 509 |
Univariate Relaxation and Related Processes | p. 513 |
An Annotated List of Basic Reference Books | p. 521 |
Bibliography | p. 523 |
Author Index | p. 559 |
Subject Index | p. 566 |
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