FIYS Recreational Mathematics
Fall 2014
Final Paper
For the final paper, you must write about one of the mathematicians listed here. The paper should give a brief
biography of the mathematician and you should talk about one of their main contributions to mathematics. For example, if you could choose Bertrand Russell (you can't
because he's not in the list), then you would give a brief biography of Russell and talk about his contributions to set theory with his book "Principia Mathematica".
The book you read in the summer (Logicomix) gave a very nice example of a way to give a biography and talk about the math contributions from a mathematician (in this
case Bertrand Russell). This paper should be a little longer than the blog posts. It should be at least 1200 words and at most 2000 words (if you need more space
to write about the mathematical concept, you can request an extension).
There are three deadlines associated to the final paper:
- The first deadline is for the annotated bibliography. For Friday Nov. 21 you must have the following (and turn it in):
- MLA style citation to an article you intend to use in your final paper that youfound using one of the college databases; include
a permanent link to the article in the database.
- MLA style citation to a book you intent to use in your paper that is in our library or that you requested from I-share.
- MLA style citation for at least 3 other references.
- The second deadline is for a first draft for the paper. This draft is due on Wednesday Dec. 3 in class. This should have at least 1200 words and a bibliography.
- The third deadline is for the final paper. After I hand you back comments on your first draft. You work on the final paper and turn it in on December 17 by 11:30am.
You can turn it in before, but failure to turn it in by December 17 will mean an automatic fail for the class.