Assignment: Biography
(Courtest of Art Johnson, Nashua Senior H.S., Nashua, NH)
Extra credit reports: Mathematics is a science that has been built up over thousands of years. Many men and women have contributed to its growth. You should be aware of the names and accomplishments of some of these people. As a voluntary activity, research the lives and accomplishments of some mathematicians given on the following list. Use the report forms available for your historical sketches. Supply all the information requested. You may choose as many or as few mathematicians to research as you wish. Each successfully completed report will earn you 2 extra points on your next classroom examination.
Biographical Subjects from the History of Mathematics
Archimedes
Apollonius
al-Khowarizmi
al-Kashi
Aryabhata the Elder
Charles Babbage
Jakob Bernoulli
Bhaskara
Janos Bolyai
George Boole
Brahmagupta
Georg Cantor
Girolamo Cardano
Nicholas Copernicus
Augustus De Morgan
Rene Descartes
Diophantus
Albert Einstein
Eratosthenes
Euclid
Leonhard Euler
Pierre Fermat
Fibonacci
Gottlob Frege
Galileo Galilei
Evariste Galois
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Sophie Germain
Kurt Godel
W.R. Hamilton
David Hilbert
Hypatia
Johannes Kepler
Felix Klein
Sonya Kovalevsky
Joseph Louis La Grange
Gottfried W. Leibniz
Liu Hui
Marin Mersenne
John Napier
Isaac Newton
Emmy Noether
Omar Khayyam
Blaise Pascal
Pythagoras
S. Ramanujan
Regiomontanus
Bernhard Riemann
Bertrand Russell
S. Stevin
James Sylvester
Thales
Evangelista Torricelli
Tsu Ch'ung-chih
Francois Viete
John von Neumann
A.N. Whitehead
Yang Hiu
Zeno of Elea