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Mathematicians
Match the number I emailed you with mathematician I listed below.
1.    Jamshid al-Kashi - pi
2.    Muhammed ibn Musa al-Khowarizmi - algebra
3.    Kurt Godel – math systems
4.    Tsu Ch’ung-Chi - pi
5.    Willebrord Snell (Snellius)
6.    George Boole
7.    Arthur Cayley
8.    Augustus DeMorgan – logic, induction, signs, distribute, commutative
9.    Thomas Harriot
10.    John Machin
11.    Sir Isaac Newton – algebra, calculus
12.    William Shanks – pi
13.    John Venn – sets
14.    John Wallis – pi
15.    Ahmes – circles, fractions
16.    Simon Stevin
17.    Rene Descartes – coordinate system
18.    Pierre de Fermat – primes, number theory
19.    Charles Hermite
20.    Joseph Legrange - calculus
21.    Marin Marsenne – primes, number theory
22.    Blaise Pascal – algebra
23.    Francois Viete – algebra, pi
24.    George Cantor – set theory
25.    Carl Gauss – number theory
26.    Gottfried Leibniz - calculus
27.    Emmy Noether – abstract algebra
28.    Bernhard Reimann - geometry
29.    Appollonius of Perga – geometry, conics
30.    Archimedes of Syracuse – method of exhaustion
31.    Diophantus of Alexandria - algebra
32.    Eratosthenes of Cyrene – number theory, primes, circumference
33.    Euclid of Alexandria - geometry
34.    Pythagoras of Samos - geometry
35.    Aryabhata the Elder – Pi, Algebra, place value, and zero
36.    Bhaskara I – Hindu-Arabic number system
37.    Bhaskara II
38.    William Rowan Hamilton
39.    Christian Goldbach – (Goldbach’s Conjecture)
40.    Gabiel Cramer – linear algebra, determinants, geometry
41.    Leonard Euler – calculus, discrete math, number theory, notation



Requirement
Must have a minimum of 6 slides
Must include a minimum of 2 pictures
Mathematician info that you need to include
-Name
-Date of birth 
-Date of Death (if applicable)
-City/country they lived
-What work are they famous for
-interesting facts

-  References – at least 2 different internet sources.  NEITHER of which may be Wikipedia or any other website that is edited by users.
    Be sure to include the name of the site used, web address, and date accessed for internet. (You may use easybib.com to help with the works cited).
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    Always put information you collect into your OWN words!


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