Web Site Instructions
Use the following directions to begin to explore the great mathematical minds known around the world. In your investigations you will find a wealth of activities in mathematics that will help you to develop your interest and create insight in the universal idea of numbers.
Directions:
- To
begin,
click on http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Indexes/HistoryTopics.html or http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Chronology/full.html.
Then read
the list of topics, then select a topic from the various cultures and
other history topics related to mathematics.
- Click on http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Indexes/Hist_Topics_alph.html at the bottom of the history topics page to view a full listing of the related history topics.
- To choose a
mathematician from an alphabetized list, click on
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/Full_Alph.html
- Otherwise AskJeeves.com. will provide you
with a variety of mathematicians, just type in
Names of Mathematicians
the question box. Then, click on
Mathematician Biography (Number 3) to
choose from the mathematician biography sites listed, as well as, other
mathematics topics.
· Information structure
· Design a title page with a picture and the name of the mathematician.
The information that you include about the mathematician must demonstrate a meaningful understanding of the
mathematical work developed by the mathematician you have chosen to write about.
· Provide a list of mathematicians that lived during the same century of the mathematician you have investigated.
· Give in depth biographical information
· Answer the following questions:
1. What made this person famous?
2. How is this person’s mathematic theory used today?
3. Did you understand your mathematician’s theory?
· Can you apply the past mathematical theory to the math topics you are learning in school today?