User:AlexRodriguez

About

My name is Alex Rodriguez and yes I am a famous baseball player. I enjoy the outdoors, especially downhill mountain biking and rock climbing. I am from Anacortes, Washington, which is located on the ocean in the San Juan Islands.

Grand Challenge

Grand Challenge: How Does the Human Brain Work and Produce Mental Activity? , National Academy of Sciences , National Center for Biotechnology Information , updated 2008 , accessed 10 September 2014 (Grand Challenge)

MATLAB Demonstrations

When I was young, I spent a lot of time outdoors in the forest behind my house. I was, for a while, fascinated with contour plots. I made a few maps of the area behind our house and attempted to mark the highs and lows with contour lines. Because of this, my favorite MATLAB Demonstration would have to be the Earth's Topography demonstration. The idea that you can represent a three-dimensional surface on a plane is interesting to me. Recently I learned that one way to visualize four-dimensional surfaces is to use nested surfaces, similar to Topography's nested curves.