Mathematician List

[tcox]

Any ideas on where I can find a list of important mathematicians that would be suitable for 7th graders to look up? I looked up lists online and came up with like 1000 names, but I don't want to give my students mathematicians that when they read their accomplishments have no idea what they did.

[seastarmath]

THE AIMS foundation has a book on historical connections with several names. I can look them up. Off the top of my head, I think of Hypatia, Venn, Pythagoras, Banneker: I'll find my books and get back to you. Or maybe if you go to the AIMS website you will find a list.

[Boxcar]

What about the pi guy and E=MCsquared?

[seastarmath]

Here's the list from Historical Connections: (three volumes. I got them from aimsedu.org)

Thales, Euclid, Heron, Hypatia, Banneker, Babbage, Galois, Lovelace, Kovalevsky, and Ramanujan , Pythagoras, Archimedes, Napier, Galileo, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Euler, Gauss, and Germain , Venn, Erathosthenes, Fibonacci, Descartes, Agnesi, Lagrange, Somerville, Dodgson, Noether, and Polya

[MeganC]

Oo0o0o... This is just what I needed. Tcox... could you send me your lesson that you intend to do with your students? I am looking for a way to do a writing prompt for my resource math classes. I thought about having them research a mathematician, but in order for my students to use this piece in their senior writing portfolio, I have to somehow turn it into an analytical piece. I am not an english person so any help/suggestions on how best to do this or perhaps a completely separate writing prompt alltogether for math class would be very welcomed.