The document discusses the bisection method for finding roots of equations. It begins by defining the bisection method as a root finding technique that repeatedly bisects an interval and selects a subinterval containing the root. It notes that while simple and robust, the bisection method converges slowly. The document then provides the step-by-step algorithm for implementing the bisection method and works through an example of finding the root of f(x) = x^2 - 2 between 1 and 2. It concludes by presenting the bisection method code in C++.