Directions: Match the famous mathematician to his/her description � each person is used once.
Mathematicians:
Agnesi Johann Bernoulli Fermat Kepler Pascal Riemann
Appolonius Brahmagupta Fibonacci LaGrange Plato Thales
Archimedes Euclid Gauss Lambert Ptolemy Von Leibniz
Jacob Bernoulli Euler Hipparchus Newton Recorde Weierstrass
Descriptions:
1. I was the first to rigorously prove that is irrational. I wrote on many topics including descriptive geometry and was the forerunner of the discovery of Non-Euclidean geometry. I made the first systematic development of hyperbolic functions and also was responsible for many innovations in the study of heat and light as well as working on the theory of probability.
2. Along with Euler, I was one of the two greatest mathematicians of the 18th century. I developed the notation of f� and f�� for calculus and worked on analysis and theory of equations.
3. I am the most prolific writer on mathematics, I also made the following notations: f(x), e, abc, , and i. I had several theories named in my honor. I am considered the father of graph theory. I eventually went blind, but continued to write books on various mathematical topics.
4. I was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 19th century. I wrote the greatest single publication Disquisitiones Arithmetica on number theory and was the discoverer of Non-Euclidean geometry. I was also considered a child prodigy after I summed the integers from 1 to 100 instantly by spotting that the sum was 50 pairs of numbers each pair summing to 101.
5. I wrote a definitive Greek work on astronomy. I also wrote the Almagest about my mathematical theory of astronomy. I made astronomical observations from Alexandria in Egypt during the years 127-41 A.D.
6. I am the most prominent Hindu mathematician who worked in an astronomical center in India and wrote on rational solutions to quadratic equations. I became the head of the astronomical observatory at Ujjain, which was the foremost mathematical center of ancient India during my time.
7. I am the most talented mathematician of the Middle Ages from Italy. I wrote Liber Abaci, which is about arithmetic and elementary algebra. I also have a sequence named for me: 1,1,2,3,5,8,�, which is related to the golden ratio and is found in patterns in nature.
8. I was the most influential textbook writer of the 16th century. I wrote Whetstone of Witte about algebra and where the �=� was first introduced. I studied at Oxford and Cambridge and practiced medicine for many years.
9. The Laws of Planetary Motion were some of the most remarkable contributions ever made in science and I was the one who made them. I did important work in optics, discovered two new regular polyhedra, gave the first mathematical look at the close packing of equal spheres, gave the first proof of how logarithms worked, and devised a method of finding the volumes of solids of revolution that can be seen as a contribution to the development of calculus.
10. I am the father of �Modern Analysis� and a great teacher of advanced mathematics. I grew up in Germany and began working at the age of 19 on mathematics because I was pressured by my father to study finance in my earlier years. I liked studying hyperelliptic integrals and abelian functions.
Use this Website to help you: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/ then choose Biography Index or History Index; Google �Math History� or see Mrs. Gavin�s Website for more links.
