Mathematicians Are People, Too (Vol. 1)
by Wilbert Reime Author, Luetta Reimer Author
Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians. Focuses on moments of mathematical discovery experienced by Thales, Pythagoras, Hypatia, Galileo, Pascal, Germain, and others.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0-86651-509-7
- Print Status
- In Print
- Stories
- 15
- Pages
- 142
- Suggested Grades
- 3rd - 7th
- Historical Setting
- 636 BC - 1920 AD
- Publisher
- Dale Seymour Publications
- Edition
- First
- Copyright
- 1990
Stories
- 1 Pyramids, Olives and Donkeys - Thales
- 2 The Teacher Who Paid His Student - Pythagoras
- 3 The Man Who Concentrated Too Hard - Archimedes
- 4 A Woman of Courage - Hypatia
- 5 Magician or Mathematician? - John Napier
- 6 Seeing Isn't Believing - Galileo Galilei
- 7 Count on Pascal - Blaise Pascal
- 8 The Short Giant - Isaac Newton
- 9 The Blind Man Who Could See - Leonhard Euler
- 10 The Professor Who Did Not Know - Joseph Louis Lagrange
- 11 Mathematics at Midnight - Sophie Germain
- 12 The Teacher Who Learned A Lesson - Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 13 Don't Let My Life Be Wasted! - Evariste Galois
- 14 Life On An Obstacle Course - Emmy Noether
- 15 Numbers Were His Greatest Treasure - Srinivasa Ramanujan
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