Famous Mathematician Obituary Project
In this activity, you are going to learn some interesting facts
about a famous mathematician. After you choose a famous
mathematician, you are going to see if you can find their
picture, and write their obituary. You can also find out if we
have studied any topics that this mathematician also studied.
How many interesting facts can you find out about the famous
mathematician that you have chosen?
In this project, you will:
Choose a famous mathematician.
 Find as many interesting facts as you can about your
famous mathematician.
 Find out the contributions that were made to the study of
mathematics by your famous mathematician.
 Find out if we have studied any topics that your famous
mathematician studied.
 Write an obituary for your famous mathematician.
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As you work on this project, you will access internet sites to
gather the information that you need.
To accomplish the task, you will:
1. Choose a famous mathematician from the list provided.
2. Write an obituary for this famous mathematician. An obituary is
usually written in paragraph form and charts the life of the
deceased in chronological order. Make sure that you include in
the obituary as many of the things that are usually in
an obituary that you can, including a picture of them.
When you write the obituary, use one out of a newspaper or
search an online site for ones to use as a guide.
Each activity will be graded based on:
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the amount of correct information gathered about the famous
mathematician
the presentation of the project, including appearance, neatness,
pictures, and interesting facts.
Refer to the rubric for the obituary
You must use at least 2 different sources and be sure to cite
your sources!!
List of mathematicians to choose from:
1. Hypatia
2. Emy Noether
3. Sonya Kovalevskaya
4. Maria Gaetana Agnesi
5. Mary Fairfax Sommerville
6. Sir Isaac Newton
7. Euclid of Alexandria
8. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
9. Georg friedrich Bernhard Riemann
10.
Archimedes of Syracuse
11.
Rene Descartes
12.
Omar Khayyam
13.
Leonardo Fibonacci
14.
Albert Einstein