We survey influential quantitative results on the convergence of the Newton iterator towards simple roots of continuously differentiable maps defined over Banach spaces. We present a general statement of Kantorovich's theorem, with a concise proof from scratch, dedicated to wide audience. From it, we quickly recover known results, and gather historical notes together with pointers to recent articles.
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