Go to http://www.cs.appstate.edu/~sjg/class/1010/mathematician/mathematicianreferences.html in order to click on the underlined web links. Note that if you see a reference to the Heart of Math book, then you should look there.

Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci (1170-1250)

Here are some references to help you with Fibonacci (also Leonardo de Pisa or Pisano):
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Fibonacci.html
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Fibonacci.html
http://www.cs.cas.cz/portal/AlgoMath/Biographies/Fibonacci.htm
Leonard of Pisa and the new mathematics of the Middle Ages, Gies, Joseph New York, Crowell [1969] ASU MAIN STACKS QA29.F5 G5

Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)


Here are some references to help you with Leonardo DaVinciy
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Leonardo.html
http://www.mos.org/leonardo/
http://members.efn.org/~gabriela/da_vinci.html
http://www.hypatiamaze.org/leonardo/leo_timlin.html
http://www.hypatiamaze.org/leonardo/leo_lune.html
http://www.hypatiamaze.org/leonardo/leo_vinci.html
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/udaepp/090/w2/Magee.htm

Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

Here are some references to help you with Galileo:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Galileo.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Quotations/Galileo.html
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Galileo_Galilei/
http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/Museum/galile.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
http://www.crystalinks.com/galileo.html

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) by Ben and Tim

Here are some references to help you with Copernicus:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Copernicus.html
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/copernicus.html
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Copernicus.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/copernicus/
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Quotations/Copernicus.html
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/n/nicolaus_copernicus.html

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)


Here are some references to help you with Rene Descartes
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Descartes.html
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Quotations/Descartes.html
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Descartes/RouseBall/RB_Descartes.html
The library has quite a number of books, for example Descartes : the life and times of a genius B1873 .G73 2006
Descartes : his life and thought  B1873 .R6313 1998
I would suggest going to this portion of the library and glancing through the texts

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Here are some references to help with Pascal:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Pascal.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Quotations/Pascal.html
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Pascal/RouseBall/RB_Pascal.html
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/bykova/phi310/Pascal.htm
On campus, go to
http://www.library.appstate.edu/
On the left side, click on Databases & Articles
Click on the letter J
Click on JSTOR
Search for
Pascal and the Invention of Probability Theory
Oystein Ore
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 67, No. 5 (May, 1960), pp. 409-41

Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)


Here are some references to help with Isaac Newton:
http://www.gaia.com/quotes/Sir_Isaac_Newton
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Quotations/Newton.html
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Newton.html
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blnewton.htm
http://scidiv.bellevuecollege.edu/MATH/Newton.html
http://mathforum.org/cgraph/history/newton.html
http://www.solarnavigator.net/inventors/isaac_newton.htm
http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu/anecdotes/newton.html

Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)


Here are some references to help with Leonhard Euler:
http://scidiv.bellevuecollege.edu/math/Euler.html
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Quotations/Euler.html
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Euler.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/22494/stories/Euler.htm
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)


Here are some references to help you with Florence Nightingale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale#Statistics
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/nightingale/Florence_Nightingale.htm
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/night_educ.htm
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/nitegale.htm
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Nightingale.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/nightingale-rural.html
http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/ncctm/activities/Florence3.pdf

Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866)

Here are some references to help you with Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Riemann.html
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Quotations/Riemann.html
http://cauchy.math.okstate.edu/~wli/teach/fmq.html (search in this page for Riemann)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Riemann
p. 182-184 of Remarkable mathematicians: from Euler to von Neumann. This is available on google books. Our library also has it too.

Thomas Fuller

  • One of Fuller's Calculations
  • A History of Computers,
  • the history of computer speed
  • Java Applet 1885 Felt &Tarrant "Comptometer" adding machine. "The interactive Adding Machine, one you can use!!"
  • MAD page http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/special/fuller_thomas_1710-1790.html
  • African Slave and Calculating Prodigy: Bicentenary of the Death of Thomas Fuller, by Fauvel and Gerdes, Historia Mathematics 17 (1990), 141-151.
  • The Great Mental Calculators: The Psychology, Methods, and Lives of Calculating Prodigies, Past and Present, by Steven B. Smith, 1983,
  • On Mathematics in the History of Sub-Saharan Africa, by Paulus Gerdes, Historia Mathematica 21 (1994), 345-376, p. 345, 361-2, 366, 373.

    Maria Agnesi

  • Maria Gaetana Agnesi
  • http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/sgray/Agnesi/translation/translation.html
  • The Living Witch of Agnesi http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000ws/witch-of-agnesi.html
  • Why bother to learn Calculus - http://www.karlscalculus.org/why.html
  • Definition of Calculus
  • Women of mathematics : a biobibliographic sourcebook edited by Louise S. Grinstein p. 1-5.
  • The Witch of Agnesi: A Lasting Contribution from the First Surviving Mathematical Work Written by a Woman - A commemoritive on the 200th anniversary of her death, by S. I. B. Gray and Tagui Malakyan, The College Mathematics Journal, Vol 30, No 4, September 1999, p. 258-268.
  • Properties of the witch of Agnes-application to fitting the shapes of spectral lines, by Roy C. Spencer, Journal of the Optical Society of America, 30 (1940) p. 415-419.

    Sophie Germain (1776-1831)

  • RSA Coding - by Dr. Sarah - Adapted from Bill Bauldry's Cryptography in the Classroom
  • http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/largest.html#Sophie
  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/germain.html

    Here are some references to help with Sophie Germain:
    http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Germain.html
    http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_sophie_germain.htm
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/germain.html

    Here are some library articles too. From the library databases, full text is available by going to the Jstor Database:
    Sophie Germain Jesse A. Fernandez Martinez The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 63, No. 4 (Oct., 1946), pp. 257-260
    p. 348-349 of Sophie Germain: Or Was Gauss a Feminist? Nick Mackinnon The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 74, No. 470 (Dec., 1990), pp. 346-351

    I also have some printed articles that I will lend you:
    Women of mathematics : a biobibliographic sourcebook edited by Louise S. Grinstein p. 47-56
  • Notable mathematicians : from ancient times to the present / Robyn V. Young
    p. 201-203.
  • History of Fermat's Last Theorem in Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers, by Jan Gullberg, p. 333-334.
  • Mathematical Expeditions: Chronicles by the Explorers, Springer Verlag, UTM, by Laubenbacher and Pengelley,

  • Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to effective thinking, by Burger and Starbird.
    p. 96-middle of 98, 108.

    Carl Friedrich Gauss

  • Gauss
  • Gauss Biography
  • Gauss' Life in Charts
  • Dr. Sarah's notes on Gauss
  • http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Non-Euclidean_geometry.html#41
  • Parallel Lines
  • Notable mathematicians : from ancient times to the present Robyn V. Young p. 195-197.
  • Mathematical Expeditions: Chronicles by the Explorers, Springer Verlag, UTM, by Laubenbacher and Pengelley, p. 12-15 and 187.
  • Mathematics from the Birth of Numbers, by Jan Gullberg, WW Norton and Company, p. 381

    Turing


    http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Turing.html
    http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Quotations/Turing.html
    http://www.thocp.net/biographies/turing_alan.html

    Georg Cantor

  • http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/CantorGeorg.html
  • http://www.shu.edu/projects/reals/history/cantor.html
  • http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Cantor.html
  • Cantor's Diagonal Argument
  • Notable mathematicians : from ancient times to the present / Robyn V. Young
    p. 91-93.
  • Modern mathematicians / Harry Henderson, Publisher New York : Facts on File, c1996,ASU IMC STACKS J510.922 H496moJ p. 27-36.
  • "Paradise Lost: Cantor." Ch. 29 in Men of Mathematics: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians, by Bell
  • Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to effective thinking, by Burger and Starbird. p. 8-9, 20, 164-170.

    Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920)


    http://members.tripod.com/mathsc/ramanujan/sramanujan.htm
    http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi495.htm
    http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/2003/10-12/62_Iraja-ramanujan.shtml
    http://www.hinduwisdom.info/quotes321_340.htm
    http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/math/alexander/reviews/br1.html
    http://www.flonnet.com/fl1617/16170810.htm
    http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Ramanujan.html
    http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Ramanujan.html
    I will also lend you some articles in class.
  • Notes on Ramanujan
  • Notable mathematicians : from ancient times to the present / Robyn V. Young p. 411-413.
  • The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, by Paul Hoffman, New York: Hyperion, 1998. p. 83-91.
  • Modern mathematicians / Harry Henderson, Publisher New York : Facts on File, c1996,ASU IMC STACKS J510.922 H496moJ
  • Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to effective thinking, by Burger and Starbird. p. 41-42, 72-74.

    Paul Erdos

  • http://www.math-inst.hu/staff/erdos/c2.html
  • http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/30002.4.shtml
  • http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/glossary/Erdos.html
  • Ivan Peterson's MathTrek - Party Games
  • Java game HEXI
  • Notable mathematicians : from ancient times to the present / Robyn V. Young p. 161-163.
  • Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews, Albers and Alexanderson, Birkhauser, 1985. p. 83-91.
  • N is a Number, A Portrait of Paul Erdos. A documentary film by George Paul Csicsery
    [interlibrary loan or in Dr. Sarah's office]
    Excerpts:
    http://www.cs.appstate.edu/~sjg/class/1010/simpsons/erdos.wav
    http://www.cs.appstate.edu/~sjg/class/1010/simpsons/erdosproof.mov
  • Dr. Sarah's Notes on Erdos

    David Blackwell (1919 - )


    http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/blackwell_david.html
    http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Blackwell.html
    http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/ncctm/activities/blackwell.htm
    Click on the pdf available from the link at
    http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1177013814
    I will also lend you some articles in class.
    http://www.jstor.org/view/08834237/di984011/98p0013h/0?currentResult=08834237%2bdi984011%2b98p0013h%2b1%2cFF55%2b19860200%2b9978%2b80139799&psearchExp=%22%3cstrong%3eDavid%20Blackwell%3c/strong%3e%22&searchID=cc993321.10024921220&nextHit=FF55&sortOrder=SCORE&viewContent=Article&config=jstor&frame=noframe&userID=980a5229@appstate.edu/01cc993321a7e9692f5637&dpi=3&displayChunk=10
    I will also hand you some paper references in class.
    A Conversation with David Blackwell by Morris H. DeGroot, Statistical Science, 1986, Vol. 1, No. 1, 40-53.
    **[Need to be on campus to access this]
  • Notable mathematicians : from ancient times to the present / Robyn V. Young p. 62-64.
  • Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews, Albers and Alexanderson, Birkhauser, 1985. p. 19-32.
  • The Prisoner's Dilemma
  • Website on the prisoner's dilemma

    Mary Ellen Rudin (1924 - )


    http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/Rudin.html
    http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Rudin.html
    I will also lend you some articles in class.
  • Dr. Sarah's Intro to Topology
  • Notable mathematicians : from ancient times to the present / Robyn V. Young p. 424-426.
  • Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference by Claudia Henrion, p. 84-94.
  • Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers by Jan Gullberg p. 378
  • More mathematical people : contemporary conversations / edited by Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Constance Reid Publisher Boston : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1990 / QA28 .M67 1990 p. 283-303.
  • Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to effective thinking, by Burger and Starbird. p. 327-332, 334-5, 337-8.

    Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924-)


    Here are some references to help you with Evelyn Boyd Granville
    http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/granville_evelynb.html
    http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Granville.html
    Evelyn Boyd Granville: Complex Solutions to Real-Life Problems. Available:
    http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/ncctm/ebg.pdf

    John Nash (1928 - )


    http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/beautiful_mind/beautiful_mind_ch5.htm
    http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Nash.html
    http://www.slate.com/id/2060110
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/sfeature/sf_nash.html
    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1994/nash-interview.html

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/sfeature/sf_dixit.html

    Stephen Hawking (1942 - )

    Here are some references to help you with Stephen Hawking
    http://thinkexist.com/quotes/stephen_hawking/
    http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Stephen_Hawking/
    http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1579179,00.html
    http://www.psyclops.com/hawking/resources/cnn.html
    http://www.psyclops.com/hawking/resources/cherniack.html
    http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html
    http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Hawking.html
    http://www.hawking.org.uk/

    Karen Uhlenbeck (1942 - )

    http://www.pdksciart.com/poster04.htm
    http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/uhlen/vita/bio.html
    http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Uhlenbeck_Karen.html
    http://www.research.umich.edu/news/michigangreats/uhlenbeck.html
    http://www.utexas.edu/news/2000/11/13/nr_science/
    On campus at the library site, search for the ebook Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference There is an interview with her from p. 24-44. I will see if I can copy this for you and if so, will lend it to you in class.

    Frank Morgan

  • http://www.williams.edu/Mathematics/fmorgan/
  • Why are Bubbles Round?
  • Double Bubble is no Trouble
  • Bubbles and Math Olympiads
  • Joel Hass solves the 2,000-year old Double Bubble Problem
  • When Bubble Meets Bubble
  • "A Math Chat with Frank Morgan", Math Horizons, Vol 5, Sept 1997, p. 14-17.
  • General Double Bubble Conjecture in R^3 Solved, Focus: The Newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America, May/June 2000, Volume 20, Number 5, p. 4-5.
  • Private correspondance with Frank Morgan, November, 2000.
  • Private correspondance with Frank Morgan and his mother, 2001.

    Bill Gates (1955)

    Here are some references to help you with Bill Gates
    http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Gates.Mirick.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/23/AR2007022301697.html
    http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/mar08/03-12MSUSInnovationLeadPR.mspx
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92236781

    Ingrid Daubechies

  • Ingrid Daubechies' web page
  • Ingrid Daubechies' Personal Biography
  • Digital Images
  • http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.05/geek.html
  • About Wavelet Compression
  • Wavelet Applications Come to the Fore
  • Wavelet Page
  • Comparing Wavelet and JPG Compression
  • Comparing Wavelet Compression with JPEG Compression
  • JPEG vs Wavelet
  • Notable mathematicians : from ancient times to the present / Robyn V. Young p. 137-138.
  • Coal Miner's Daughter, Math Horizons, Mathematical Association of America, p. 5-9, 28-30. April, 2000,
  • Wavelets Making Waves in Mathematics and Engineering - Ingrid Daubechies, MAA Invited Address, Baltimore, Maryland - January, 1992. Selected Lectures in Mathematics, [in library or Dr. Sarah's office]

    David X Cohen (1966 - )

    Here are a few references to help you with David X Cohen:
    http://roychristopher.com/david-x-cohen-futuramas-head-in-a-jar
    http://seedmagazine.com/news/2006/05/meet_the_geeks.php
    http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/futurama/dxcinterview.html
    He can also be viewed talking a bit about math on my math feature in Bender's Big Score.

    Danica McKeller (1975 - )


    http://www.ugo.com/ugo/html/article/?id=17652
    http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2007/07/interview_with_math_whiz_autho.php
    http://www.shapingyouth.org/blog/?p=613
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a88OZlL4YbY
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugiqRjttL9U
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRVvx4qI1IQ
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5201825
    http://www.danicamckellar.com/

    Terrence Tao (1975 - )

    http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/media.html