Robert Dodier wrote:
>
> I found an implementation of Brent's algorithm in Scheme.
> http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~gjs/6946/linux-install.htm
> However a comment in the source code states that it is
> also derived from Numerical Recipes. Probably there are lots of
> other implementations out there.
FWIW, netlib has a Fortran version of Brent's zero finder:
http://www.netlib.org/go/zeroin.f
if you want to translate from something else. I'm pretty sure it's
described in some other textbooks or papers.
Ray