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My name is Isa Louise Ferrall and I love Duke University. End of story

ps my name is pronounced (E - sa, Ferrell (like Will Ferrell)) Thanks! Bye!

Here is a very interesting article: Large Hadron Collider Enables Hunt For 'God' Particle To Complete 'Theory Of Everything', ScienceDaily, updated 29 May 2008, accessed 21 August 2011 (Grand Challenges)

Homework 2

After reviewing the demonstrations in the MATLAB help file, two of the demos really caught my eye. The first one was the Inverses of Matrices in the Mathematics section. I found the color depictions of a random matrix and its inverse to be very interesting. And when they were multiplied together, they created a unit vector. The colors helped visually represent the subject very well. My second favorite demonstration was Werner Boy's Surface. First of all I loved the graphics, but also, I found the history and mathematics behind the curve fascinating. Here is the background for the surface, "In 1901, David Hilbert assigned Werner Boy the task of proving once and for all that it was impossible to embed the Projective Plane into 3-space without singularities. Instead Boy came back with this surface. It has a triple point, but no singularity."