interesting mathematician !?!?!?!?!?

Question

maths 10 th grade project
need a famous mathematician's name and of course interesting info. on him
brief yet useful........no lists of names
try limiting it to one.
thanx

Answer 1

Of the names listed so far, I think Euler and Galois would be my choices for interesting projects. Go with Euler if you want to emphasize his gigantic contribution to mathematics; go with Galois if you want to emphasize the intrigue and tragedy of his life story.

Answer 2

I'm particularly fond of Charles Dodgson, who was a professor at Christ Church College at Oxford, and under the name Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. But then my favorite person in the history of Management Theory is Frederick Taylor, who slept upright in a chair and wore women's clothing from time to time.

Then there is Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first computer program, for Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, back in 1842. The programming language ADA is named for her.

Bertrand Russell was also a philosopher, social reformer, ethicist, agnostic, and vegetarian. He wrote Principia Mathematica with Alfred North Whitehead. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.

Information on all of these people is available at Wikiepedia

Answer 3

You can't go wrong with the recommendations you already have. But if you would consider a 20th century mathematician with a colorful story, take a look at Alan Turing. By any standard, he was a genius. His work as a British cryptanalyst during WWII resulted in the breaking of the German Enigma cipher machine and shortened the war-- in fact, it may have kept the British from starving due to German submarines sinking shipping. He did fundamental work in the foundations of computing-- the "Turing Test" is named after him. He had enough eccentricities to fill several papers; he ran long distances with an alarm clock tied to his waist. He was a homosexual, which was illegal in Britain at the time, and after the war he was prosecuted, convicted, and compelled to undergo hormone therapy. He grew despondent and (probably) killed himself by eating an apple dipped in cyanide.

Answer 4

The best by far is GALOIS. Galois was a poor(ish) young French teenager who drank alot and "womanized". He got into trouble by sleeping with a married woman. The husband found out and challanged him to a duel. He thought he would die in the duel and wrote down all this maths syuff that was in his head. Turns out he did die; and then the maths stuff turned out to be totally awesome. Galois's stuff has helped us understand Algebraic Structure. This is the core of alot of beautiful tertiary mathematics. Helps classify wallpaper patterns for example!! Helps us understand why Fermat's Theorem was so hard to solve. Helps in areas such as cryptography and coding.

Anyway galois died aged about 21. Spent many night in gaol for speaking out against the government and being a bit of a pisshead. He was really brilliant. He lived around the time of the french revolution. If you look up Evariste Galois on the net you will not be disappointed, you will be totally insipred! I hope.

Please choose Galois!!

Answer 5

Leonardo Fibonacci

Described a simple system of numbers that are found everywhere in nature. From the number of times your circle the stem of a plant before encountering another branch above the one you started by to the appearance of galaxies and sea shells.

Answer 6

Leonhard Euler