Mathematicians+Project

toc =Mathematicians Project=

Edmodo - Share resources with your classmates.

Background
For this project, you will research mathematicians. Below you will find a list of mathematicians to choose from. You may research these mathematicians or any others you may stumble across in your research. For the final project, you cannot choose a mathematician that someone else is presenting on.

Requirements
Some things you should find out about your mathematician: Of course, these are only a few questions. You should come up with more based on your research. You should also include other items about your mathematician, including when they lived, who their contemporaries were, etc. You need to have //at least// three sources, making sure you cite them correctly. Wikipedia is not allowable as a source, but you can use it as a starting point. This project is due Monday, April 28th at the end of class. You will have time to work on these projects in class, but there may be a need to do some extra work outside of class.
 * Where were they born? Where did they grow up? What was their early life like?
 * What mathematical concept are they most famous for?
 * When and how did they die?
 * What about their life sets them apart from other mathematicians?

Mathematicians

 * //**Benjamin Banneker - Malik B.**//
 * Nicholas Bourbaki
 * Georg Cantor
 * Girolamo Cardano
 * Mary Cartwright
 * Augustin Louis Cauchy
 * **//Ch’in Chi-shao - Jake E.//**
 * René Descartes
 * Diophantus
 * //**Euclid - Kale B.**//
 * Leonhard Euler
 * Pierre de Fermat
 * **//Fibonacci - Nick Y.//**
 * //**Niccolo Fontana - Tara A.**//
 * Jean Baptiste Fourier
 * Evariste Galois
 * **//Carl Friedrich Gauss - Isaiah C.//**
 * Ruth Gentry
 * Sophie Germain
 * David Hilbert
 * //**Hippocrates - Stjepan M.**//
 * **//Omar Khayyam - Omar H.//**
 * al-Khwarizmi
 * Sonya/Sofia Kovalevsky
 * Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
 * **//Ada Lovelace - Kristen C.//**
 * John Napier
 * **//Sir Isaac Newton - Joe Q.//**
 * **//Florence Nightingale - Adam C.//**
 * Blaise Pascal
 * **//Pythagoras - Dylan K.//**
 * Srinivasa Ramanujan
 * **//Bertrand Russell - Tarah L.//**
 * Alan M. Turing
 * François Viète
 * Any other mathematician you may stumble upon

Final Product
You will create a presentation to the class on you mathematician. This could be done in any number of creative ways, such as designing a fake facebook page (not actually doing it on facebook, though), a timeline, a comic or storyboard on their life, a movie, a podcast, etc. Let your creativity flow! These will be presented to the entire class, and each student will provide feedback on each presentation and mathematician.

Rubric
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