“…This algorithm is presently known as the Newton-Raphson method, or more commonly as Newton's method [41]. In the last decade, many modified iterative methods have been developed to improve these classical methods, see [2], [1], [6], [9], [11], [13], [14], [24], [23], [25], [26], [30], [33], [35], [37], [36], [43], [48], [49] and the references therein. DOI: 10.21136/AM.2020.0322 -18 In 1974 Kung and Traub proposed an optimal fourth-order method [34], [42].…”