Math Project
You will choose a topic of interest related to mathematics that you will research and then explain in a report format of your choosing.
- A mathematician and their contribution(s) to the math that we use in our course.
- A mathematician and their contribution(s) to history.
- A timeline of how mathematics has affected technology.
- Women in mathematics.
- Math in music.
- Math in art.
- A specific branch of mathematics and its relation to the world you live in.
- A career path that uses specific math and how.
- Give an example of a problem and how you could use math related to your class to solve that problem.
Consider Which Discipline You Are Interested In
Some Mathematicians to Consider in Chronological Order (you are not limited to these names)
- Hypatia
- Pythagoras
- Euclid
- Archimedes
- Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (c. 780-850)
- John Napier (1550-1617), creator of the logarithm
- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), planetary mathematics
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), analytic geometry (graphing equations)
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pascal's Triangle, binomial coefficients
- Isaac Newton (1642-1727), invented calculus
- Thomas Bayes (c. 1701-1761), probability and stats
- Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), function
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799)
- Sophie Germain (1776-1831)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
- Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
- Georg Cantor (1845-1918)
- Sofia (or Sonya) Kovalevskaya (1850-1891)
- Alicia Stott (1860-1940)
- Amalie Emmy Noether (1882-1935)
- Paul Erdös (1913-1996), combinatorics
- Edward Lorenz (1917-2008), chaos theory "butterfly effect", fractals
- Julia Robinson (1919-1985)
- Benoît Mandelbrot, (1924-2010)
- John Nash (1928-2015), game theory and complex systems
- Alan Turing (1912-1954), Enigma code breaking machine, AI and Turing test
- Katherine Johnson (1918-2020), NASA
- Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017), only woman to win Fields Medal, geometry and dynamical systems--how universe formed
- Karen Uhlenbeck (1942- ), only woman to win Abel prize, modern geometric analysis, instantons,
Or Explore Here for Ideas
The Abel Prize
The Fields Medal Winners
Nobel Prize Winners in Physics or Economics
(there is no Math Nobel!)
Story of Math Timeline
The Fields Medal Winners
Nobel Prize Winners in Physics or Economics
(there is no Math Nobel!)
Story of Math Timeline
Doing the Research
(best tools for finding the information you need)
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Vetted Articles (quality sources)
Is There a Link Between Music and Math?
4 Ways Music and Math are Related
Women's History: Women in Mathematics
10 Female Mathematicians Who Changed the World
For These Artists, Math is Their Muse
Why The History of Math is Also the History of Art
4 Ways Music and Math are Related
Women's History: Women in Mathematics
10 Female Mathematicians Who Changed the World
For These Artists, Math is Their Muse
Why The History of Math is Also the History of Art
Enrichment and Fun
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