-received and dealt with various messages about library items
-borrowed from library: Crapo and Whiteley, "Statics of Frameworks and Motions of Panel Structures: a Projective Geometric Introduction"; Cox, Little and O'Shea, Using Algebraic Geometry; D. Huffman, "Surface curvature and application of the dual representation"; Johnson and Riess, Numerical Analysis
-completed the Smith Summer Science Research Program Survey
-started reading Johnson and Riess, chapter with Newton's Method
-Notes on Johnson and Riess
-Looked up Newton's Method and Jacobians in James Stewart's Calculus
-continued reading and notes on Johnson and Reiss
-Looked on Mathematica for Newton's Method. Only found Mathematica on the computer in the CS lounge. FindRoot sometimes uses Newton's Method. In add-ons there is another way to use Newton's method (couldn't install the package) and also a way to find the Jacobian of a function.
-read some more of the Cox, Little and O'Shea
-read more of the Cox, Little and O'Shea
-Notes on Cox, Little and O'Shea
-met with Ileana Streinu
-copied a number of papers
-began work on Mathematica programming
-more work with Mathematica, success on lengths of sides and an equation for a circle in terms of t
-Mathematica and the simple polygon
-It Works!!!!