Famous Mathematician PowerPoint Presentation Project



Famous Mathematician PowerPoint Presentation

Portfolio Component: Deeper exploration of the culture, values, and history of the discipline

Project Objective: Create a PowerPoint presentation about one of the famous mathematicians from the list provided. In doing, this you should see connections between what the mathematician was exploring at the time he/she lived and how his/her work fit into that part of history. Your presentation should provide information as described in the rubric on this project description sheet.

Use this format: Title slide, introductory slide, slide 1(full name, date and place of birth), slide 2 (date and place of death), slide 3 (detail an early life adventure, if applicable), slide 4 (marriage/family info), slide 5 (educational background), slides 6,7,8 (major contributions) slide 10 (citations & end slide).

Project Due Date:

PowerPoint Requirements:

|Minimum of 10 slides |10 points |

|Biography (including, but not limited to: dates of mathematician’s |30 points |

|life, happenings in life, happenings in the world at that time, picture| |

|of mathematician, if available) | |

|Contributions to math/science |20 points |

|Analyze is how modern math is influenced by ancient mathematicians? |10 points |

|Trivia facts – 2 (facts about the mathematician that are not |10 points |

|well-known) | |

|Example of something the mathematician did (examples: formula |20 points |

|developed and its use; problem solved and its solution) | |

*Please use your creativity and knowledge of PowerPoint to make the presentation as interesting for others as you would like it to be for you.

Famous Mathematicians

1. Euclid

2. Galileo

3. Descartes

4. Blaise Pascal

5. Pythagoras

6. Albert Einstein

7. Charles Babbage

8. Apollonius

9. Heron

10. Sir Isaac Newton

11. Augustin Louis Cauchy

12. Karl Friedrich Gauss

13. David Hilbert

14. Pierre-Simon Laplace

15. Ada Byron Lovelace

16. Eratosthenes

17. Francois Viete

18. Jean Baptiste Fourier

19. Maria Agnesi

20. Daniel Bernoulli

21. Paul Erdos

22. Ohm

23. Charlotte Angus Scott

24. Florence Nightingale

25. Archimedes

26. Aristotle

27. Euler

28. Aristarchus

29. Fibonacci

30. Abraham de Moivre

31. Joseph Louis Lagrange

32. Hipparchus

33. Plato

34. Pierre de Fermat

35. George Boole

36. Andre Marie Ampere

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