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    Joseph Raphson was a contemporary of Isaac Newton and contributed significantly to the development of the method that is commonly known as Newton scheme. It is said that Thomas Simpson created the well known notation from above.

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Rust, W. (2015). Basic Mathematical Methods. In: Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis in Structural Mechanics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13380-5_1

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