MATHEMATICIAN PROJECT Project checklist: o Choose a mathematician to research. The best ideas are in your book. o Write a report (5 paragraphs, 1 to 2 pages) to introduce your mathematician, describe their contributions to the field of mathematics, highlight any personal anecdotal information, famous quotes, and a conclusion. o Create An 8.5x11 poster/slide highlighting your chosen mathematician. Print the slide in color. Cut out and attach the criteria below. Submit your slide using the link on the website. o Present your project to the class in a 2 to 3 minute informal oral report using notecards. Due dates: Choose a mathematician Final poster project 25 POINT MATHEMATICIAN PROJECT CRITERIA Your Name Poster Quality /10 points Content of Presentation /10 points Presentation /5 points Total /25 points SUGGESTIONS (not limited to): Leonhard Euler (1.4) Euclid of Alexandria Pierre de Fermat John Napier (3.2) Archimedes John von Neumann Georg Joachim Rhaeticus (4.3) Ptolemy Emma Noether Heron of Alexandria (6.2) Hipparchus of Nicaea Leonardo Fibonacci William Rowan Hamilton (6.3) Nicolaus Copernicus Muhammed al-Khowarizmi Rene Descartes Blaise Pascal George Cantor Carl Gauss Maria Gaetana Agnesi Brahmagupta Jean Le Rond d’Alembert (2.5) John Arbuthnot Neils Henrick Abel Abraham DeMoivre (6.5) Charles Babbage Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky John Bernoulli (7.4) Christian Doppler George Boole George Dantzig (7.6) Ada Lovelace William Jones Arthur Cayley (8.2) Hypatia Srinivasa Ramanujan Gabriel Cramer (8.5) John Venn Hermann K. H. Weyl Isaac Newton Bernhard Reimann Evariste Galois Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz Henri Poincare Roger Cotes Pythagorus of Samos Joseph Louis Lagrange Chang Tshang Appolonius David Hilbert Eudoxus of Cnidus .