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Are Quasi-Newton methods computationally impractical?

I'm guessing you're referring to the discussion on pages 188-189 of that book. The author doesn't give much detail on quasi-Newton methods or substantiate the $\mathscr O(W^2)$ complexity estimate. To ...
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Are Quasi-Newton methods computationally impractical?

Traditional quasi-newton methods like BFGS require $O(n^{2})$ storage for a potentially fully dense quasi-Hessian matrix and $O(n^{2})$ work in each iteration to update the factorized quasi-Hessian ...
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How and when to impose inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions in Newton method solver for a PDE?

(I am not a mathematician, so there might be some inaccuracies) To bring your question in a broader context, note the following: Your system can be written as $$L(u,u',u'',x,t)=0$$ on $\Omega$ with in-...
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How and when to impose inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions in Newton method solver for a PDE?

For Dirichlet BCs, this process is probably a bit simpler than you are thinking. I will demonstrate the procedure for a 1D Poisson problem, but it translates very easily to other problems with ...
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