Because is an interior minimizer of the differentiable function , it satisfies . Apply the Taylor theorem with Lagrange remainder to about . For some between and ,
The lower bound on ensures that every step of the Newton method is defined. Divide by and use
to obtain the exact error relation
The assumed derivative bounds now give the quadratic convergence bound for Newton's method
for every .
Newton's method for minimization uses
For a quantitative local bound, suppose on a convex neighbourhood containing the iterates that
with , and let be the minimizer. The integral form of the gradient and the Hessian Lipschitz bound give the quadratic convergence bound for Newton's method
If , induction yields
Since ,