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).

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PowerPoint Requirements:  Minimum of 10 slides 10 points

 Biography (including, but not limited to: 30 points dates of mathematician’s 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 10 points influenced by ancient mathematicians?  Trivia facts – 2 (facts about the 10 points mathematician that are not well- known)  Example of something the 20 points mathematician did (examples: formula 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 19. Maria Agnesi

2. Galileo 20. Daniel Bernoulli

3. Descartes 21. Paul Erdos

4. Blaise Pascal 22. Ohm

5. Pythagoras 23. Charlotte Angus Scott

6. Albert Einstein 24. Florence Nightingale

7. Charles Babbage 25. Archimedes

8. Apollonius 26. Aristotle

9. Heron 27. Euler

10. Sir Isaac Newton 28. Aristarchus

11. Augustin Louis Cauchy 29. Fibonacci

12. Karl Friedrich Gauss 30. Abraham de Moivre

13. David Hilbert 31. Joseph Louis Lagrange

14. Pierre-Simon Laplace 32. Hipparchus

15. Ada Byron Lovelace 33. Plato

16. Eratosthenes 34. Pierre de Fermat

17. Francois Viete 35. George Boole

18. Jean Baptiste Fourier 36. Andre Marie Ampere