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: