Consolidate Newton-Raphson implementations #10859
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Contributes to #8098
Consolidated the duplicate implementations of the Newton-Raphson method. I chose to keep the implementation in
maths/numerical_analysis/newton_raphson_2.py
, which approximates the derivative, because it avoids any potential issues witheval
without requiring the user to input the derivative function.Checklist: