Famous Mathematician PowerPoint Presentation
Objective: 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.
Project Due Date: March 4th, 2011
PowerPoint Requirements:
Minimum of 5 slides 10 points
Biography (including, but not limited to: dates of mathematician’s life,
happenings in life, happenings in the world at that time, picture of
mathematician, if available) 30 points
Contributions to math/science 20 points
Trivia facts – 2 (facts about the mathematician that are not
well-known) 20 points
Example of something the mathematician did (examples: formula
developed and its use; problem solved and its solution) 20 points
*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 21. Paul Erdos
2. Galileo 22. Ohm
3. Descartes 23. Charlotte Angus Scott
4. Blaise Pascal 24. Chu Shih-chieh
5. Pythagoras 25. Florence Nightingale
6. Albert Einstein 26. Archimedes
7. Charles Babbage 27. Aristotle
8. Apollonius 28. Aryabhatta
9. Heron 29. Euler
10. Sir Isaac Newton 30. Gerolamo Cardona
11. Augustin Louis Cauchy 31. Aristarchus
12. Karl Friedrich Gauss 32. Fibonacci
13. David Hilbert 33. Abraham de Moivre
14. Pierre-Simon Laplace 34. Joseph Louis Lagrange
15. Ada Byron Lovelace 35. Hipparchus
16. Eratosthenes 36. Diophantas
17. Francois Viete 37. Plato
18. Jean Baptiste Fourier 38. Pierre de Fermat
19. Maria Agnesi 39. George Boole
20. Daniel Bernoulli 40. Andre Marie Ampere