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 ET go home 
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		   Discussion of Markhov matrices. 
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 Now I invoke the fundamental theorem of calculus; I didn't make that up, that's a real theorem from freshman days. 
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		   While presenting an intentionally flawed proof of the Wielandt-Hoffman Theorem. 
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 Well, Gries' thesis was trivial. 
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 There exist three Newton brothers: Isaac, Quasi and Fig. The latter had the most impact on my life. 
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 Let's have a post-algorithm chit-chat. 
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 Perhaps these are electron energies, and you know if it's 10 miles away it's > 0 and if it's on the palm of your hand it's < 0. 
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 How the hell did I get in these things? 
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 I am anxious to give you an examples where Newton's method really works - a little result I proved a couple of years ago in my thesis. 
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 Back row people are very hard to satisfy. 
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 If you start thinking about reals, you get nervous. 
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