Student Lectures - All lectures - Constructive Mathematics: Introduction to algorithms: rootfinding & fixed-point problems (1st Year)

In this lecture, the third of the 'Constructive Mathematics' first year undergraduate course, Patrick introduces bisection, an algorithm for finding roots of general (non-polynomial) functions. He also discusses finding fixed points of functions and the relationship between fixed-point problems and rootfinding problems. You can watch many other student lectures via our main Student Lectures playlist (also check out specific student lectures playlists): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4d5ZtfQonW0A4VHeiY0gSkX1QEraaacE All first and second year lectures are followed by tutorials where students meet their tutor to go through the lecture and associated problem sheet and to talk and think more about the maths. Third and fourth year lectures are followed by classes.