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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We construct a family of high order iteration functions for finding polynomial roots of a known multiplicity s. This family is 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, ...