Paper Topic List
Choose any mathematician you want; however, no two students can use the same mathematician in the same class period. If you prefer to write your paper on a math topic, please see the suggested list.

E-mail Mrs. Gavin (
[email protected])your top three or four choices of a mathematician/topic by noon on Sunday, November 2, 2008)
(Mrs. Gavin will let you know which mathematician/topic on which you will be writing your paper by Friday, November 14,2008)
Mathematicians                                            
Abu Ali al Haytham (Alhazen)                         
Agnesi, Maria                                                
Al-Khwarizmi                                               
Apollonius                                                     
Archimedes   
Babbage, Charles                                           
Barrow, Isaac
Bernoulli, Daniel
Bernoulli, Jacob
Bernoulli, Johann
Bombelli, Rafael
Brahmagupta
Cantor, Georg
Cardano, Girolamo
Cauchy, Augustin-Louis
Cayley, Arthur
Diophantus of Alexandria
De Morgan, Augustus
Einstein, Albert
Escher, Maurits
Euclid
Euler, Leonhard
Fermat, Pierre de
Fibonacci, Leonardo
Frobenius, Georg
Galileo Galilei
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Germain, Sophie
Haytham, Abu Ali al
Heron
Hipparchus of Rhodes
Hippocrates of Chios
Hobbes, Thomas
Hypatia of Alexandria
Kelvin, Lord Thompson
Kepler, Johannes

LaGrange, Joseph-Louis
Lambert, Johann
Leibniz, Gottfried von
Malebranche, Nicolas
Mobius, August
Napier, John
Newton, Sir Isaac
Omar Khayyam
Pappus of Alexandria
Pascal
Ptolemy
Plato
Recorde, Robert
Regiomontanus, Johann
Riemann, G F Bernhard
Salmon, George
Thabit ibn Qurra, Abu'l
Thales
Theodorus of Cyrene 
Tsu Ch'ung Chi
Venn, John
Vi�te, Fran�ois
Wallis, John
Weierstrass, Karl


Math Topics
Four Color Theorem
History and Value of Pi
Math in the Middle Ages
Archimedes Palimpsest
An Investigation of the Number e
Use this link to learn more about the mathematicians:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/
Other links to help you with your worksheet and paper
Back to the Mathematician Paper Page
Back to the Mathematician Project Grading Scale
Back to Mrs. Gavin's Honors Algebra 2 Page
Mathematician Worksheet Page 1
Hosted by www.Geocities.ws

1