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Mathematician Study

 

Mathematician: a student or user of mathematics: a student or expert in mathematics, or somebody whose job involves mathematics.

We are going to have a great time studying and researching mathematicians over the next few weeks!  On this page you will find links to document we're using in class and sites to help you with your research.  Enjoy!

 

Greatest Mathematicians of All Time

Quick Info about Great Mathematicians

 Yahoo Kids Mathematicians Link

Biographies of Women in Mathematics

Famous Mathematicians

Wikipedia Mathematician

Britannica

Virtually Yours Links

 

 Leonardo Fibonacci
http://www.famousmathematician.com/profiles/leonardo_fibonacci.htm

http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibBio.html

http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/fibo.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci
 

Leonardo da Vinci
http://www.famousmathematician.com/profiles/leonardo_da_vinci.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_vinci

http://www.mos.org/leonardo/

http://library.thinkquest.org/13681/data/links/math.htm

http://mathematica.ludibunda.ch/mathematicians6.html
 

Pythagoras of Samos
http://mathematica.ludibunda.ch/mathematicians9.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras

http://www.answers.com/topic/pythagoras

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem

http://mathematicianspictures.com/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.htm

Emily Noether

http://mathematica.ludibunda.ch/mathematicians8.html

http://www.mscd.edu/~mdl/gerresources/frauen/enoether.htm

http://emilynoether.blogspot.com/

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_emmy_noether.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

Archimedes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes

http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/archimedes

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Archimedes.html

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/32808/Archimedes

http://mathematicianspictures.com/Mathematicians/Archimedes.htm

Albert Einstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html

http://www.alberteinstein.info/

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/

Galileo

http://www.famousmathematician.com/profiles/galileo_galilei.htm

http://galileo.rice.edu/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_galilei

Stephen Hawking

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html

http://www.hawking.org.uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

http://www.answers.com/topic/stephen-hawking

George Polya

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P%C3%B3lya

http://www.sci.uidaho.edu/polya/biography.htm

http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/men/polya.html

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Polya.html

Blaise Pascal

http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/vy/dms.mth/Pascal/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal

http://math.berkeley.edu/~robin/Pascal/index.html

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpascal.htm

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal/

George Washington Carver

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver

http://www.answers.com/topic/george-washington-carver

http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventors/a/GWC.htm

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/carver.htm

http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/gwc/home.html

Charles Babbage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage

http://charlesbabbage.net/

http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/charles-babbage

http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/

Jonas Salk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/sal0bio-1

http://www.jonas-salk.org/

Florence Nightingale

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale

http://www.answers.com/topic/florence-nightingale

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Mo-Ni/Nightingale-Florence.html

Elizabeth Blackwell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackwell

http://www.answers.com/topic/elizabeth-blackwell

http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=20

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_35.html

Clarissa Harlowe Barton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barton

http://clarissa-barton.memory-of.com/About.aspx

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nwa/barton.html

http://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=189

http://www.nps.gov/clba/forkids/index.htm

 

And more to come...
If you'd like to study a specific mathematician not listed above, please email the name and I'll try to find some links to use in class.

 

 

 

 

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