Pathfinders    Famous mathematicians These research suggestions and hyperlinks to websites will help you with your research on famous mathematicians Subject headings, keywords Mathematicians, Babylonian mathematicians, Euclid, Archimedes, Hindu-Arabic numerical system, Leonardo Fibonacci, Blaise Pascal, John Napier, Rene Descartes, Sir Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Carl Gauss, Charles Babbage, George Boole, Georg Cantor, Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, Algebra, Arithmetic, Calculus, Geometry, Statistics, computers, Dewey Numbers 050, 510, 920   Reference: Britannica Encyclopedias, World Book Encyclopedias, Oxford Junior encyclopedias, Encarta, Science encyclopedias On-line databases and websites EPIC database search http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/ . It will ask for a TKI login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs.  Scroll down to Databases for yr 7-10 Students, then click "access database" when you reach Encyclopedia Britannica Online type in what you wish to research.  You have the option of primary or secondary level.   The following websites have information on famous mathematicians http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/vy/vymath.htm recommended site http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/A.html Use this site to research the mathematician you have chosen. Click on the letter of the alphabet e.g. F for Fibonacci, then click on his name.  There are 2 examples of this website below. This site has pictures. http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Posters2/Fibonacci.html http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Posters2/Descartes.html http://www.sci.hkbu.edu.hk/scilab/math/babbage.html http://who2.com/ask/georgeboole.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Napier  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Leibniz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/archives/fall1997/entries/whitehead/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_mathematics

Darfield High School Library Team  27/11/07