Iterative Methods for Nonlinear Operator Equations in Banach Spaces

Book excerpt: Since Banach's fixed point theorem was proved by Banach in 1922, many authors have used this theorem to show the existence and uniqueness of solutions for differential and integral equations, a system of simultaneous linear algebraic equations by methods of successive approximations, etc., and have extended, generalised and improved this theorem in several ways. The purpose of this book is to give a comprehensive introduction to the study of iterative approximation methods for solutions of nonlinear equations involving some kinds of nonlinear mappings and multi-valued mappings in Banach spaces and normed linear spaces by the Mann and Ishikawa iterative sequences (with errors and mixed errors) and the generalised steepest descent approximations.