Math Enrichment

 


            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