Math PAPER!

Mathematician Biography Paper

You will be writing a 2-page biography on a famous mathematician!

Requirements:

1) Page 1 = TITLE PAGE (creativity allowed): Include an nteresting title; include a picture of the mathematician when available; if a picture is not available, find a relevant symbol. Include your name, section, and date. DO NOT reprint your title, name, or class information on page 1 of your paper (5 points).

2) Pages 2 and 3 = Biography should be typed, 12 font, Times New Roman, double-spaced (35 points for content, grammar, punctuation, and length).

3) Use correct grammar and punctuation.

4) IN YOUR OWN WORDS!

5) Page 4 = Reference all of your information; Title it “References” (5 points).

6) Final Paper worth 50 points total (1 test grade).

7) Class presentation of your mathematician = 3-5 minutes, 10 points (you may use visual aids: PowerPoint, poster, transparency, etc.).

8) Rough Draft Due: Tuesday, November 23, 2010. (5 points)

9) Final Draft Due: Monday, December 6, 2010.

10) Presentations: Dec. 6, 7, 8.

MATHEMATICIANS: (choose one)

Isaac Newton
Carl F. Gauss
Archimedes
Leonhard Euler
Euclid
Bernhard Riemann
Henri Poincaré
David Hilbert
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Gottfried W. Leibniz
Alexander Grothendieck
Pierre de Fermat
Niels Abel
Évariste Galois
John von Neumann
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Karl W. T. Weierstrass
Brahmagupta
René Déscartes
Augustin Cauchy
Carl G. J. Jacobi
Hermann K. H. Weyl
Peter G. L. Dirichlet
Leonardo `Fibonacci'
Georg Cantor
Arthur Cayley
Emma Noether
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Muhammed al-Khowârizmi
Pythagoras of Samos
Kurt Gödel
Bháscara Áchárya
Blaise Pascal
Apollonius of Perga
Pierre-Simon Laplace
William R. Hamilton
Charles Hermite
Felix Christian Klein
Richard Dedekind
Stefan Banach
Diophantus of Alexandria
George Boole
François Viète
André Weil
Ferdinand Eisenstein
Andrey N. Kolmogorov
Alhazen ibn al-Haytham
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Christiaan Huygens
Jacques Hadamard
Pappus of Alexandria
Gaspard Monge
Hipparchus of Nicaea
Jean-Victor Poncelet
Siméon-Denis Poisson
Johannes Kepler
Girolamo Cardano
Jacob Bernoulli
John Wallis
Joseph Liouville
Godfrey H. Hardy
L.E.J. Brouwer
Joseph Fourier
Élie Cartan
Aryabhatta
Adrien M. Legendre
James J. Sylvester
John E. Littlewood
F.E.J. Émile Borel
Michael F. Atiyah
Jakob Steiner
Johann Bernoulli
Pafnuti Chebyshev
Omar al-Khayyám
M. E. Camille Jordan
Archytas of Tarentum
Henri Léon Lebesgue
Jean-Pierre Serre
Giuseppe Peano
Johann H. Lambert
Carl Ludwig Siegel
Hermann G. Grassmann
Thales of Miletus
Julius Plücker
Atle Selberg
Aristotle
Hermann Minkowski
Shiing-Shen Chern