Girard Desargues (1591-1661)
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665)
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
Round 2:
Round 1:
In groups of two, do a web search and name a significant accomplishment
related to geometry to share with the rest of the class.
Girard Desargues (1591-1661)
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665)
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
Round 2:
Individually, perform a web search in order to
name a significant accomplishment that is related to geometry geometry.
Find a picture of the person (unless otherwise noted, and then find a picture related to their accomplishment instead). Email the web address of your picture to Dr. Sarah at [email protected] so that we can look at it up front as you share the accomplishment with the rest of the class.
Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866)
Felix Klein (1849-1925)
David Hilbert (1862-1943)
Donald Coxeter (1907-2003)
Shiing-shen Chern (1911-2004)
Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-)
Kenneth Appel (1932-)
(no picture of mathematician - find a picture of accomplishment)
Karen Uhlenbeck (1942-)
Frank Morgan
Carolyn Gordon (1950-)
Grigori Perelman (Grisha) (1966-)