The document provides instructions for a PowerPoint presentation assignment on a famous mathematician. Students must choose one mathematician from a list of 35 options and create a 10-slide presentation covering their biography, contributions to math/science, how modern math is influenced by their work, and an example of a formula or problem they solved. The presentation will be graded on inclusion of biography details, analysis of their contributions and influences, inclusion of two trivia facts, and an example of their work. The due date is also provided.

1. Famous Mathematician PowerPoint Presentation
Portfolio Component: Deeper exploration of the culture, values, and history of the discipline
Project Objective: Create a PowerPoint presentation about one of the famous mathematicians
from the list provided. In doing, this you should see connections between what the
mathematician was exploring at the time he/she lived and how his/her work fit into that part
of history. Your presentation should provide information as described in the rubric on this
project description sheet.
Use this format: Title slide, introductory slide, slide 1(full name, date and place of birth), slide 2
(date and place of death), slide 3 (detail an early life adventure, if applicable), slide 4
(marriage/family info), slide 5 (educational background), slides 6,7,8 (major contributions)
slide 10 (citations & end slide).
Project Due Date:
PowerPoint Requirements:
• Minimum of 10 slides 10 points
• Biography (including, but not limited to:
dates of mathematician’s life,
happenings in life, happenings in the
world at that time, picture of
mathematician, if available)
30 points
• Contributions to math/science 20 points
• Analyze is how modern math is
influenced by ancient
mathematicians?
10 points
• Trivia facts – 2 (facts about the
mathematician that are not well-
known)
10 points
• Example of something the
mathematician did (examples:
formula developed and its use;
problem solved and its solution)
20 points
*Please use your creativity and knowledge of PowerPoint to make the presentation as
interesting for others as you would like it to be for you.

2. Famous Mathematicians
1. Euclid
2. Galileo
3. Descartes
4. Blaise Pascal
5. Pythagoras
6. Albert Einstein
7. Charles Babbage
8. Apollonius
9. Heron
10. Sir Isaac Newton
11. Augustin Louis Cauchy
12. Karl Friedrich Gauss
13. David Hilbert
14. Pierre-Simon Laplace
15. Ada Byron Lovelace
16. Eratosthenes
17. Francois Viete
18. Jean Baptiste Fourier
19. Maria Agnesi
20. Daniel Bernoulli
21. Paul Erdos
22. Ohm
23. Charlotte Angus Scott
24. Florence Nightingale
25. Archimedes
26. Aristotle
27. Euler
28. Aristarchus
29. Fibonacci
30. Abraham de Moivre
31. Joseph Louis Lagrange
32. Hipparchus
33. Plato
34. Pierre de Fermat
35. George Boole
36. Andre Marie Ampere