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Notebook with experimental newton implementation #944

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You're assuming jacobian is symmetrical, but that shouldn't be true in general right?


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Oh, you are right. It is in the case of minimization, but might not be for different root finding problems. We should add an option for that.

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Ah, good catch! The jacobian is indeed generally asymmetrical for n>1.

At first I thought you were talking about the Hessian. That is symmetrical but with a really weird caveat for the case when things are twice differentiable but the second derivatives aren't continuous. (In these sorts of cases you can get some really weird stuff like a fractal trail that's flat at every point but ascends.)

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