This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Newton's method applied to a quadratic polynomial converges rapidly to a root for almost all starting points and almost all coefficients. This ...

Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just ...

The stochastic root-finding problem is that of finding a zero of a vector-valued function known only through a stochastic simulation. The simulation-optimization problem is that of locating a ...

This is a graduate topics course on learning in networks, focusing in particular on fundamental statistical and computational limits. Topics include the planted clique problem, community detection, ...