Biographies of Mathematicians

Table of Contents—Freshmen

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Presentation Mathematician Date Presentors
0Preface: Biographies of Mathematicians Title page Requirements
1Archimedes Dec. 4Matthew Pavilanis & Josh Mann
2René Descartes Dec. 5James Barnett & Greg Marbach
3Euclid Dec. 5Monique DuBridge & Maggie Reed
4Plato Dec. 4Stephanie Beach & Clinton Jepkema
5Pythagoras Dec. 5Corey Kuhn & Ryan Skalecki
6Gauss Dec. 7Susan Ssemanda & Lizzi Glassman
7Fermat Dec. 5Miles Joyner & Andrea Blake
8Pascal Dec. 5Joseph Spivey & Jacob Reinhardt
9Newton Dec. 4John Guipe & Jason Stetler
10Fibonacci Dec. 5Wade Richardson & Katherine Munchow
11Kepler Dec. 6Jasmine Kumar & Becca Trubac
12Galileo Dec. 4Toby Klint & Bo Kurland
13Euler Dec. 4Phillip Tularak & Jenny Key
14Mersenne Dec. 4Kari Umbenhaur & Dan Ferris
15Zeno of Elea Dec. 6David Ackerman & Chad Bailey
16Lagrange Dec. 6Karl Schmidt & Greg Sass
17Laplace Dec. 7Jennifer Poitter & Ryan Hewitt
18Abel Dec. 7Andrew Hoyt & Jarid Pearson
19Galois Dec. 7Sara Loeffler & Bridgette Labeau
20Whitehead & Russell Dec. 7Mike Pawlik
21Boole & DeMorgan Dec. 7Joe Fahey & Tyler Koenigshof
22Hamilton Dec. 6Elle Glueckert & Amy Anton
23Hypatia Dec. 6Tiffany Lunk & Sasha Velez
24Sophia Germain Dec. 6Megan Villwock & Jihye Ha

 

 

 

 

Biographies of Mathematicians

Table of Contents—Sophomores

Presentation Mathematician Date Presentors
0Preface: Biographies of Mathematicians - Title page
1Aristotle Dec. 4Jake Gunn & Becky McQuillan
2Bernoulli Dec. 4Callie Daugherty & Carrie Cooper
3Lobatchewsky Dec. 4*Jonelle Matthews & Irena Nesterova
4Cauchy Dec. 4Chris Black & AJ Booker
5Dedekind Dec. 4Marquan Martin & Alex Shannon
6Diophantus Dec. 4Jessica Urban and Rachel DuBridge
7Fourier Dec. 5Kelly Crandall & Michelle Wright
8Gödel Dec. 5Mary Scapino & Camille Roth
9Goldbach Dec. 5Kyle Everett & John Marazita
10Hermite Dec. 5Greg Strzyzykoski & Jim Frey
11Hilbert Dec. 5Nate Hiers & Mark Hopkins
12Jacobi Dec. 5Seth Proctor & Adam Schaller
13Leibniz Dec. 6Nathan Lippi & Justin Pilot
14Maclaurin Dec. 6Ashley Schuettpelz & Melinda Schaller
15Mandelbrot Dec. 6*Padriac Bartlett & Greg Harte
16Napier Dec. 6Amanda Moore & Lisa Sutton
17Emmy Noether Dec. 6Brianne Smith & Gabriella Harrison
18Peano Dec. 6Mark Walker & Erica Dashner
19Riemann Dec. 7Abbey Gire & Matt Tanke
20Venn Dec. 7Eric Dickey & Bryce Coward
21Kronecker Dec. 7*Rachel Clark & Ramya Bhat
22Weierstrass/Kowalewski Dec. 7*Jessica Bacon & Jenna Yancich
23Kummer Dec. 7* 
24Cantor Dec. 7 
25Monge Dec. 7* 
26Poincaré Dec. 7* 
27Poncelet Dec. 7* 
28Sylvester/Cayley Dec. 7* 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biographies of Mathematicians

Table of Contents—Juniors

Presentation Mathematician Date Presentors
0Preface: Biographies of Mathematicians - Title page
17Fuzzy Logic Dec. 6Sean Stahl & Angie Gluckert
18Pythagorean School Dec. 6Melissa Schemenauer & Darcy Butts
23Invention of Zero Dec. 7Brett Beitzel & Matt Fryling
20Chinese Remainder Theorem Dec. 7?
21Paradoxes Dec. 7Dustin Shampel & Tim Miles
22Hilbert's 23 unsolved problems Dec. 7Eric Carter & Andrew Fredrickson
19Multiplying by one Dec. 7?
1Fun and Funny Bases Nov. 9Matt Skalecky & Tom Kanger
50!=1 Nov. 9Talli Schrader
9Figurative Numbers Nov. 11Josh Barber
2Euclid's Algorithm Nov. 11Teresa Han
3Place Value, zero, etc. Nov. 16Jenni Seager
4More Factor Trees Nov. 16Daniel Snow
70^0=? Nov. 18Alaina Pethick
14Compound Inequalities Dec. 20Ryan Dickey & Charlie Penninger
6Orders of Infinity Nov. 23Beth Francis & Aaron Closson
8Newton's Method Nov. 23Harv Atherton
10Bernoulli Numbers Dec. 4Mark Gano & Brad Parrigin
11Solving a Cubic Dec. 4Sonja Bontrager & Tracy Cleveland
12Quadratic Relations Dec. 4Sally Gregg
13Continuity Dec. 11Robbie Palmiter
15topic 15 Dec. 14Tom Moore

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