who is a famous mathematician i can write about for a school report?
Bethy asked:
I’m supposed to do research and write a report on a famous mathematician. I have to include 3 sources. Also, i have to include why they are remembered in the field of mathematics. I really want to get this report finished today because i have other reports to write, too. If you can give me an idea of a really great mathematician and some websites to find information on them, that would be awesome!
I’m supposed to do research and write a report on a famous mathematician. I have to include 3 sources. Also, i have to include why they are remembered in the field of mathematics. I really want to get this report finished today because i have other reports to write, too. If you can give me an idea of a really great mathematician and some websites to find information on them, that would be awesome!
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Pythagoras is famous. ** rÂW® ** umbrella trees
Pythagoras, the creator of the Pythagorean theorem. A^2+B^2=C^2 The golden rule of triangles. REVA M
Euclid Andrei
Euler. Just google Euler. You will find lots of good stuff. JB
Well, if you want easy (and popular, I’m sure), you could try Pythagoras. His works, though absolutely cutting edge at his time, are standard high school fare these days. He was also an interesting fellow. He had (from what I’ve read) his own cult, and had an associate killed for proving that the square root of 2 was irrational. Look into it on google. I’m sure you’ll find plenty.
The first mathematician who sprang to mind, however, is Leonhard Euler, who was a very creative and extremely prolific Swiss mathematician, whose contributions range far and wide through several branches of maths. He’s responsible for the constant e, for example, named after him.
You could also do Kurt Godel, who is an interesting mathematician. He is responsible for proving definitively and logically that current mathematical techniques will never be able to answer all questions, no matter how much we tweak them. He also did some other cool things, like providing a little mathematical proof of god. He was also a good friend and inspiration to Einstein, and he went insane and died. Pretty cool guy.
Uhh, who else? You could try Greog Cantor, who is, in a way, similar to Godel, but probably not as interesting. He made huge leaps and bounds in set theory, and proved that counting numbers, integers, and rational numbers all have the same number of elements, but real numbers and irrational numbers do not. That is, you can count all possible fractions, but you can’t count all real numbers. In that way, he proved that there was more than one type of infinity. He then wondered if there was a kind of infinity between the two infinities, and he obsessed over that problem until his death. Then, Godel (again), proved that the problem was unsolvable within a couple of years after his death. alwbsok