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A Web-based project for AP Calculus AB Designed by Mrs. Kamkutis Solon High School

Who is Your Favorite Mathematician?. A Web-based project for AP Calculus AB Designed by Mrs. Kamkutis Solon High School. Math History Project. Schedule Task Good Questions to Ask/Answer List of Mathematicians Examples for Works Cited List Conclusion. Schedule.

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A Web-based project for AP Calculus AB Designed by Mrs. Kamkutis Solon High School

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  1. Who is Your Favorite Mathematician? A Web-based project for AP Calculus AB Designed by Mrs. Kamkutis Solon High School

  2. Math History Project • Schedule • Task • Good Questions to Ask/Answer • List of Mathematicians • Examples for Works Cited List • Conclusion

  3. Schedule • May 12 – Introduce Project and Begin Research • May 16 – Deadline for choosing mathematician • May 16-23 – Research/preparation in Library or on Computer • May 24 – Presentations • May 25 – Presentations Back to table of contents

  4. Task • Choose a Mathematician who has had an historical impact (from the list provided or an approved alternate). • Prepare a 10-15 minute presentation that includes the following: • A biography of the mathematicians life (15 points) • A synopsis of the mathematician’s contribution to the field of mathematics (15 points) • A mathematical presentation (which may be a computation, diagram, proof, etc.) which illustrates one of the mathematician’s efforts. (15 points) • Turn in a typewritten outline of your presentation (on the day you give it), including: • Title of presentation and your name (2 points) • The three presentation topics above with details (8 points) • Bibliographic references, including publications and websites (5 points). You must have at least 4 sources of which at least one is not web-based. Back to table of contents

  5. Good Questions to Ask/Answer • What factors motivated your mathematician? • How did your mathematician’s life experience, beliefs and interests influence his/her work? • How do the mathematical advances of your mathematician’s day differ from today’s mathematical research? (What was it like to be a mathematician then as compared to now?) Back to table of contents

  6. The Greek Period Pythagoras of Samos Archimedes of Syracuse Euclid of Alexandria Aristotle Plato Eratosthenes of Cyrene Thales of Miletus Hippocrates of Chios Zeno of Elea Dark ages to Renaissance Fibonacci, Leonardo Bhaskara Copernicus, Nicolaus Al-Khwarizmi 16th and 17th Centuries Kepler, Johannes Pascal, Blaise Fermat, Pierre de Napier, John Descartes, Rene 18th Century Newton, Isaac Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von Chatalet, Gabrielle Euler, Leonard Bernoulli (Jacob or Johann or both) Early 19th Century Agnesi, Maria Gauss, Johann Galois, Evariste Fourier, Jean Baptiste Herschel, Caroline Lagrange, Joseph-Louis Laplace, Pierre-Simon Cauchy, Augustin Poisson, Simeon List of Mathematicians • Early 19th Century • Boole, George • Riemann, Georg • Kovalevskaya, Sofia • Lovelace, Augusta • Cantor, Georg • Somerville, Mary • 20th Century • Hilbert, David • Mandelbrot, Benoit • Uhlenbeck, Karen • Heinrich, Bruce • Cartwright, Mary • Noether, Emmy • Nash, John Forbes • Shannon, Claude • Turing, Alan • Von Neumann, John Back to table of contents Back to Task page

  7. Examples for Works Cited List Basic Format for Online Source: Author, “Title” (Last Revision Date); n. pag. Online: Internet. Today’s Date as DD Month YYYY (web address) Brown, Kevin. "Constructing the Heptadecagon" (January 12, 1999); 8 pars. Online: Internet. 15 February 1999 (http://www.seanet.com/~ksbrown/kmath487.htm) Gonzalez, Humberto M. Humberto's Home Page. (1996); n. pag. Online: Internet. 23 November 1998 (http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/1642/) Weisstein, Eric W. "Euclid's Fifth Postulate." (9 August 1998); 5 pars. Online: Internet. 11 August 1998 (http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/math/ParallelPostulate.html) Other Types of Sources: Clapham, Christopher. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Dunnington, G. Waldo, Ph.D. Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science. New York: Hafner Publishing Co., 1955. Moritz, Robert Edouard, Ph. D., Ph. N. D. Memorabilia Mathematica or The Philomath's Quotation-book. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1914. Borrowed from: Cung, Nelly. "Carl Friedrich Gauss." (3 October 2001); n. pag. Online: Internet. 21 May 2003 (http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2977/gauss/gauss.html) Back to table of contents

  8. Conclusion Through this project, you will gain a better appreciation for the mathematicians of the past and the mathematics that they have developed for your use. You will gain insight into what it means to be a mathematician by attempting to understand work that has already been done. (Imagine how difficult it would be to come up with these concepts as original work!) Through your presentation of a mathematical concept to the class, you will strengthen your understanding of that concept. Adapted from:What is Your Favorite Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem?By Crystal L. Furman Back to table of contents

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