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Famous Mathematicians

Famous Mathematicians. By: Mary Bowling. Aryabhatta. Aryabhata was born in the region lying between Narmada and Godavari, which was known as Ashmaka , and is now identified with Maharashtra Died in 550 BC in India

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Famous Mathematicians

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  1. Famous Mathematicians By: Mary Bowling

  2. Aryabhatta • Aryabhata was born in the region lying between Narmada and Godavari, which was known as Ashmaka ,and is now identified with Maharashtra • Died in 550 BC in India • We know the year of Aryabhata's birth since he tells us that he was twenty-three years of age when he wrote Aryabhatiya which he finished in 499. • Aryabhata is the author of several treatises on mathematics and astronomy, some of which are lost.

  3. Contribution to math • Aryabhata works had also included on the approximation for pi.

  4. Picture of Aryabhatta

  5. Benjamin Banneker • Was born on November 9, 1731 • Benjamin was a black mathematician, astronomer, clockmaker and publisher. • While he was a child he was trained in reading and doing arithmetic by his grandmother and a schoolmaster. • When he was old enough to help around the family farm he quit taking formal education. • Benjamin saw a watch and showed it to Banneker and he started to examine it and its working or how it works.

  6. Benjamin continued…. • He designed huge replicas of the watch by calculating the gear assemblies and made a huge striking clock. • This invention of Benjamin Banneker served as an accurate timepiece and he earned recognition as a clockmaker.

  7. Pictures of Benjamin

  8. Florence Eliza Allen • Florence Allen was born on October 4, 1876 somewhere called Horicon, Wisconsin. • Florence received a masters degree at the university of Wisconsin in 1900 and and 1901. • In 1907 she had become the second woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics at the university of Wisconsin-madison. • She had also got a the fourth Ph.D. overall over all of her department.

  9. Florence continued…. • Her thesis was entitled "The cycle involutions of third order determined by nets of curves of deficiency 0, 1, and 2." • It was published in the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics. • She remained at the University of Wisconsin as an instructor in mathematics for the next thirty years. • Publishing two more papers on "A Certain Class of Transcendental Curves" and "Closure of the Tangential Process on the Rational Plane Cubic". • Then she retired two years later.

  10. Florence's Family Life

  11. Pictures of Florence Eliza

  12. Aryabhatta resources • www.scribd.com/doc/27160415/Contribution-of-Aryabhatta‎ • www.fathersofmathematics.com/‎ • fabpedigree.com/james/grmatm2.htm‎ • http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Aryabhata_I.html

  13. Benjamin's resources • http://www.buzzle.com/articles/famous-black-mathematicians.html

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