Group Poster Project
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Group Name or Number: THE FUNAMBULISTS
Project Title: FAMOUS MATHEMATICIANS
Number in Group: 4
Tutorial Class: T1000
Student’s Name: Uschi
Student Number: 666
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Research methods (how/where did you obtain your information) |
Each member of the group had the responsibility to research one of the people. All research was conducted on the internet, using Google to search for webpages. All the information we collected was verified from at least two websites to ensure accuracy. |
Your project |
Our group chose three mathematician and/or
scientists from different period of time throughout known history; ancient,
middle-ages and the modern era. Archimedes represents the ancient period.
He was a mathematician,
physicist, engineer, astronomer, and philosopher who was educated in From the middle-ages,
we have Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci. He was an Italian
Number Theorist and educated
by a Moorish master. Amongst his main contributions were the introduction of
Hindu numerals to western culture, and also the use of the Fibonacci sequence
(although he did not discover this). He used this sequence as the basis for a
model to describe population growth amongst rabbits, and it has subsequently
been found to occur in many areas of biology.
Finally Louis de Broglie represents the
modern era. He was a French physicist educated in |
References |
www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Archimedes.html www.crystalinks.com/archimedes.html www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fibonacci.html plus.maths.org/issue3/fibonacci/ www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Broglie.html nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1929/broglie-bio.html |
Tutor’s signature: Grade: PASS FAIL
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