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Math Enrichment
Pick one of the famous people in math and write a two page paper about them
and their contribution to mathematics.
Abu'l-Wefa
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Abu Bekr ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Al-Karaji
Al-Khwarizmi
Jean-le-Rond d'Alembert
Antiphon the Sophist
Apollonius
Archimedes
Archytas of Tarentum
Jean Robert Argand
Aristotle
Aryabhata
Hertha Ayrton
Nina Karlovna Bari
Isaac Barrow
Thomas Bayes
Alexander Graham Bell
Jakob Bernoulli
Johann Bernoulli
Nicolaus Bernoulli
Dorothy Lewis Bernstein
Bhaskara
David Harold Blackwell
Rafael Bombelli
Emile Borel
Robert Boyle
Brahmagupta
David Brewster
Henry Briggs
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Georg Cantor
Girolamo Cardano
Antoine-Nicolas Caritat
Lewis Carroll
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Nicolas Chuquet
Alexis Claude Clairaut
Marquis de Condorcet
Nicolaus Copernicus
Marie Curie
George Dantzig
Abraham DeMoivre
J.W. R. Dedekind
Rene Descartes
Diophantus
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
Emilie du Chatelet
Henry Ernest Dudeney
Luther Eisenhart
M.C. Escher
Euclid
Eudoxus
Leonhard Euler
Pierre Fermat
Scipio Ferro
Leonardo Fibonacci
Bernard Frenicle de Bessy
Galileo Galilei
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Marie-Sophie Germain
Albert Girard
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Evelyn Boyd Granville
Hermann Günter Grassmann
James Gregory
Edmond Halley
Thomas Harriot
Lene Vestergaard Hau
Euphemia Lofton Haynes
Charles Hermite
Heron of Alexandria
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
David Hiblert
Hipparchus
Hippocrates
Grace Murray Hopper
Liu Hui
Yang Hui
Christiaan Huygens
Hypatia
Hypsicles of Alexandria
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Gaston Julia
John Kemeny
Johannes Kepler
Omar Khayyam
Helge von Koch
Sonja Kovalevsky
Marquis De L'Hospital
Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya
Johann Lambert
Pierre-Simon LaPlace
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Willard Libby
Nicolai Ivanovitch Lobachevsky
Ada Lovelace
Colin Maclaurin
Wilhelm Magnus
Thomas Malthus
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Walter McAfee
Margaret McDuff
Menaechmus
Nicolaus Mercator
Winifred Merrill
Marin Mersenne
Hermann Minkowski
Augustus Ferdinand Mobius
Thomas Muir
Johann Muller
John Napier
Isaac Newton
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Emmy Noether
Max Noether
Fra Luca Pacioli
Blaise Pascal
George Peacock
Georg Pick
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia
Plato
Vera Pless
George Pólya
Ptolemy
Pythagoras
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Joseph Raphson
Helena Rasiowa
Robert Recorde
Mina Rees
Bernhard Riemann
Julia Bowman Robinson
Mary Ross
Christoff Rudolff
Doris Schattschneider
Chu Shih-Chieh
Abu Kamil Shuja
Waclaw Sierpinski
Mary Somerville
Simon Stevin
James Sylvester
Seki Takakazu
Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia
Olga Taussky-Todd
Theano
Theaetetus
Theodorus of Cyrene
Tsu Ch'ung-chih
Karen Uhlenbeck
Luca Valerio
Varahamihira
Argelia Velez-Rodriguez
François Viète
John von Neumann
John Wallis
Caspar Wessel
Norbert Wiener
J. Ernest Wilkins
Zeno of Elea
Zenodorus
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