Famous Mathematicians While on your journey through Google Earth, answer the following questions through the links and videos provided. 1. Where did Newton go to school and later became a professor? Cambridge 2. What was the book Newton wrote that introduced his groundbreaking discoveries? Principia 3. How did Archimedes die? Killed by a Roman soldier when the city was being invaded 4. Name two of his major writings. Any two of the following: On plane equilibriums, Quadrature of the parabola, On the sphere and cylinder, On spirals, On conoids and spheroids, On floating bodies, Measurement of a circle, The Sandreckoner, On the method of mechanical problems. 5. What did Descartes say he really learned after leaving the school? He learned how little he did know 6. What did Descartes supposedly see on the wall that led him to his discoveries in geometry? A fly 7. What did Riemann's father originally hope he would study? Theology 8. Instead of looking at the zeta function as a real one, how did Riemann look at it? A complex function. 9. At what age was Pascal admitted to weekly meetings of Roberval, Mersenne, Mydorge, and other French geometricians? 14 10. Give a brief description of Pascal's Triangle. Pascal’s Triangle is constructed by each horizontal line being formed from the one above it by making every number in it equal to the sum of those above and to the left of it in the row immediately above it.