Note that if you see a reference to the Heart of Math book, then you should look there - For the 2pm class it is on reserve in the library.

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
  • 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

  • RSA Coding - by Dr. Sarah - Adapted from Bill Bauldry's Cryptography in the Classroom
  • http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/lists/top20/SophieGermain.html
  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/germain.html
  • http://www.chaucer.ac.uk/subjects/mathemat/mathematician.htm
  • 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 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

    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.

    Ramanujan

  • Ramanujan Biography
  • The Man Who Knew Infinity
  • Rediscovering Ramanujan
  • Ramanujan
  • Ramanujan, Srinivasa (1887-1920)
  • 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

  • Mathematicians of the African Diaspora web page on David Harold Blackwell
  • 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

  • Mary Ellen Rudin
  • 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.

    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.

    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
  • Wavelet Image Viewers vs. JPEG
  • 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]