Neural Networks, Gradient Descent.
point (say x₀) is the slope of the tangent at that point. The main intuition is to take this tangent line intercept at the x-axis (x₁) as the next new point and the process is repeated iteratively. We can see in the figure below where this tangent is touching the x-axis x₁=13.04 for x₀= 0.626 So