Direct method

Direct method may refer to

• Direct method (education) for learning a foreign language
• Direct method (computational mathematics) as opposed to iterative method
• Direct methods (crystallography) for estimating the phases of the Fourier transform of the scattering density from the corresponding magnitudes
• Direct method in calculus of variations for constructing a proof of the existence of a minimizer for a given functional
• Direct method (accounting) as opposed to indirect method for calculating cash flows