What's a good mathematician on which I can be able to do a 2 page report on?
2007-05-14 10:36:35 · 8 answers · asked by Dom 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Stephen Hawking would be a cool report. He is considered one of the smartest men alive now and he is considered an expert on the origins of the universe. The other real cool aspect about him is that he is a quadraplegic and is wheelchair bound. He is also about to take a zero-gravity flight to see what it would feel like to be weightless. His voice is even featured on a Pink Floyd song which is pretty cool in itself.
2007-05-14 10:48:19 · answer #1 · answered by aslansdaddy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
adult males : Archimedes, Euclid, Sir Isaac Newton, Pythagoras, Blaise Pascal, Carl Gauss, Aryabhatta, Ramanujam women persons: Emmy Noether (1882 - 1935) Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831) Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850 - 1891) Rózsa Péter (1905 - 1977) Julia Robinson (1919 - 1985) Mary Ellen Rudin Eva Tardos Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852) Émilie du Châtelet Mary Cartwright Hypatia of Alexandria Marianna Csörnyei Ingrid Daubechies Maria Agnesi Shafi Goldwasser Karen Uhlenbeck Dusa McDuff Annie Moskol
2017-01-09 20:52:40 · answer #2 · answered by finto 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Click on the link below for a list of famous mathematicians. Find someone who interests YOU. It will be a lot easier to write a paper on something you're even remotely interested in, and when you're talking about famous mathematicians, that's kinda tough.
For example, if you think number theory, acoustics, and elasticity are somewhat interesting, I'd go with Sophie Germain. If you like something more concrete, like geometry, go with someone like Isaac Barrow.
Use the list and choose which one will work best for you.
2007-05-14 10:47:02 · answer #3 · answered by Laurie F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Type "mathematician biography index" into your search engine. You will be able to search by date or name alphabetically. Click on a few until you find someone who sounds interesting. Once you select a name, you can use the usual resources for information for your report.
2007-05-14 10:48:23 · answer #4 · answered by smallbizperson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Benoit Mandelbrot
Very interesting work on fractal mathematics.
It is a whole new area of math that is applicable to all areas of life.
2007-05-14 10:46:40 · answer #5 · answered by genesis081803 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Blaise Pascal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal
He did a bunch of great work in several different mathematical fields.
2007-05-14 10:45:04 · answer #6 · answered by Bryan N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fibonacci....(did you see the movie "The Davinci Code?)http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/F.html
2007-05-14 10:54:26 · answer #7 · answered by **SMILE** 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to go with Archimedes : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes
He was the greatest.
2007-05-14 10:49:35 · answer #8 · answered by mechanical_prints2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋