The Mann iterative scheme was invented in 1953, see [7], and was used to obtain convergence to a fixed point for many functions for which the Banach principle fails. For example, the first author in [8] showed that, for any continuous selfmap of a closed and bounded interval, the Mann iteration converges to a fixed point of the function. In 1974, Ishikawa [5] devised a new iteration scheme to e...

The paper deals with strong convergence properties of the Mann iteration. A new class of demicontractive mappings (called α-demicontractive) is introduced for which the strong convergence of the computed sequence is assured. The paper presents also an overview of relevant contributions of the last two decades, concerning strong convergence for Mann-type iteration of demicontractive mappings.