“…The iteratively Gauss-Newton method (IRGN) for the solution of exponentially ill-posed inverse problems, which was introduced by Bakushinsky in 1993 [BA93], has been investigated and extended in a number of formulations, [BK01,BK04,BS05,BKA06,K00]. Here, our goal is to extend the IRGN algorithm to nonlinear problems in which physical considerations suggest replacement of the stabilizing term of the IRGN by a more general Tikhonov penalty stabilizing term.…”