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Books and Websites for finding people to study:
-Mathematicians are People, too Vol. 1 and 2
-The Math Book
-Go Figure!
-Fermat's Enigma
-Engineers: http://heritage.imeche.org/peopleevents
-Dr. Posin's Giants: out of print but amazing.
-"Great Scientists" from the DK Eyewitness Books series: It is more just a quick overview of each scientist with some of their more notable achievements. It only includes 30 scientists from Aristotle to Stephen Hawking and each get a two page spread. So it isn't complete but I thought it would be easy to give a quick overview, take only about 5 minutes to read everything on the two pages. But it would create a common groundwork for everyone to build on. It also has a nice variation of scientists - ie biology, chemistry, physics focuses.
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Mathematicians/Scientists/Concepts by "era"
Ancient World (beginning-300 ad)
Aristotle
Thales
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Hypatia
Hebrew (can be used any time period, obviously :).)
Euclid (330 bc) geometry
Medieval Times (300 ad-1200 ad)
-Omar Khayyam, 11th century Persian mathematician and astronomer: http://www.okonlife.com/poems/page3.htm poet, with several great themes, amongst which, God as the potter, choosing one's path...)
Books and Websites for finding people to study:
-Mathematicians are People, too Vol. 1 and 2
-The Math Book
-Go Figure!
-Fermat's Enigma
-Engineers: http://heritage.imeche.org/peopleevents
-Dr. Posin's Giants: out of print but amazing.
-"Great Scientists" from the DK Eyewitness Books series: It is more just a quick overview of each scientist with some of their more notable achievements. It only includes 30 scientists from Aristotle to Stephen Hawking and each get a two page spread. So it isn't complete but I thought it would be easy to give a quick overview, take only about 5 minutes to read everything on the two pages. But it would create a common groundwork for everyone to build on. It also has a nice variation of scientists - ie biology, chemistry, physics focuses.
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Mathematicians/Scientists/Concepts by "era"
Ancient World (beginning-300 ad)
Aristotle
Thales
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Hypatia
Hebrew (can be used any time period, obviously :).)
Euclid (330 bc) geometry
Medieval Times (300 ad-1200 ad)
-Omar Khayyam, 11th century Persian mathematician and astronomer: http://www.okonlife.com/poems/page3.htm poet, with several great themes, amongst which, God as the potter, choosing one's path...)
(From the Layton Vanguard group)
Watch the following link: Occam's Razor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XEA3k_QIKo
-Medieval Translators and Measurements:
Boethius http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Boethius.html
Adelard of Bath http://www.adelard.com/about/original_adelard.html
Gherard of Cremona http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gherard.html
Thomas Bradwardine http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Bradwardine.html
The Journey of Al & Gebra to the Land of Algebra
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Bendick
Fascinating Fibonacci's by Trudi Hammel Garland (Leonard of Pisa or Fibonacci-Italy 1180)
Bhaskara (1114 a.d.) first systematic explanation of arabic figures
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Early Modern Times (1300-1750) Age of Exploration
-Application of the compass in the western world and beginning of study of electromagnetism
-Madhava of Sangmagrama: (1340 India) pi and infinite series; founder of school of astronomy and mathematics
-Newton (1642 England) motion, gravitation, light, color, calculus (an interesting contrasting classic to this might be "Gulliver's Travels," which is something of a satire on Newton's "Principia"
-Napier (1550 Scotland)-trigonometry, logarithms, "mathemagician" magic :)
-Galileo (1564 Italy) astronomer; scientific method
-Pi (The Math Book, pg 110) fun to do in March with Pi Day, 3/14
-Pascal (1623 France) religious, mathematics, physics and science; pascal's triangle
-Euler (1707 Swiss) geometry, analysis (he was blind--amazing mental math!), topology (konigsburg bridge dilemma)
-Gerolamo Cardano (Italian 1501): mathematician, physician, astrologer; negative/imaginary numbers; probability
-René Descartes (1596 France)-mathematical connections, links in nature, geometry
-Fermat- (1601 France) layer, hobby of mathematics, geometry, proof, games, probability "Fermat's Enigma"
-Leeuwenhoek (1632 Dutch) lens maker, made first microscope, discovered microbes, persisted to work on his passion while employed in other occupations (De Kruif's "Microbe Hunters")
-Spallanzani (1729 Italy)-asked lots of questions, examined things, patiently proved that the concept of "spontaneous generation" was false, "Spallanzani was triumphant, but then he did the curious thing that only born scientists ever do--he tried to beat his own idea, his darling theory--by experiments he honestly and shrewdly planned to defeat himself. That is science! That is the strange self-forgetting spirit of a few rare men, those curious men to whom truth is more dear than their own cherished whims and wishes." (ibid, pg 37) Another great quote, "I have proved that there is a law and order int he science of animals, just as there is in the working of the stars." (pg 42) He went on expeditions collecting natural specimen.
-Treviso Arithmetic: European arithmetic text that discusses economics, shows need for a common economic denominator in coinage, currency, interest, and measurements. (The Math Book pg 108)
-Golden Ratio: so cool!
-Copernicus
-1714 Faranheit and the mercury thermometer
-"The Longitude Prize" a book about inventors and sea-navigation/clocks
-Mendeleyev:
Leads
the reader on a delightful and absorbing journey through the ages, on
the trail of the elements of the Periodic Table as we know them today.
He introduces the young reader to people like Von Helmont, Boyle, Stahl,
Priestly, Cavendish, Lavoisier, and many others, all incredibly diverse
in personality and approach, who have laid the groundwork for a search
that is still unfolding to this day. The first part of Wiker's witty and
solidly instructive presentation is most suitable to middle school age,
while the later chapters are designed for ages 12-13 and up, with a
final chapter somewhat more advanced.
1750-1900
-Lagrange (1736-France)
-Maria Agnesi (1718- Italy) abstract mathematics, made calculus textbook, dedicated to service to others--so much that it superceded her love of mathematics, importance of women getting an education,
-Benjamin Banneker (1731 African-American mathematician)-compiled almanacs, did surveying (great one to go with George Washington, also a surveyor)
-Biographies from "Brave Companions" by McCullough
-Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel. Later, he accepted a professorship at Harvard University in the United States.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (
listen (help·info); September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was a Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography.
Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time in a manner generally considered to be a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. He was one of the first to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular).
-Faraday (1831)
-Kepler (See Whitehead's "Intro to Mathematics" page 28-30)
-Galvani (1780) and Volta (1792) study of electricity
1900-present
Biographies from "Brave Companions" by McCullough:
"Long-Distance Vision" is about the experiences and literary works of several early aviators, including Charles Lindbergh, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, and Beryl Markham.
"Steam Road to El Dorado" is about the construction of the original Panama Railway in the 1850s.
"The Builders" concerns the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1870s, and particularly the life of engineer John A. Roebling and his son, Washington Roebling.
"The Treasure from the Carpentry Shop" concerns the rediscovery of the original plans for the Brooklyn Bridge in 1969.
"The Lonely War of a Good Angry Man", written in 1969, concerns the destructive environmental impact of strip mining in eastern Kentucky, and profiles Harry M. Caudill, local author and anti-strip mining political activist.
"Miriam Rothschild" is about the English zoologist and entomologist Miriam Rothschild.
BOOKS not mentioned above:
"String, Straight Edge and Shadow"
"Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe"
"Go Figure!" (read it all carefully!)
"Mathematicians are People, too" vol. 1 and 2
Free Choice (and any other approved reading—through mentor)
"The Phantom Tollbooth"
"Archimedes Door of Science"
"My Side of the Mountain"
The Warlord series (counts as 1): do the expts.
"Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis
"Brave Companions" by McCullough
"Microbe Hunters"
"Life of Fred" (any in series)
"Men and Mathematics" by Bell
"Elegant Universe"-video
"Flatland" "Fermat's Enigma"
"Evolution: is it science or faith?"
"On Numbers" by Asimov
"Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Latham
"The Disappearing Spoon"
"Time"
"Introduction to Mathematics" by Whitehead
"Number Devil"
"Cosmos"--video...
"All mimzy were the borrogoves"
"A Swiftly tilting planet"
"Hatchet"
"Scientific Discoveries that Strengthen Faith"
Complete any Saxon Math book
"Donald Duck in Mathematic land"
"E=mc2" video (see Jordan for details)
"The Number Devil"
"The Longitude Prize"
"Microbe Hunter"
"The Mystery of the Periodic Table"
Watch the following link: Occam's Razor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XEA3k_QIKo
-Medieval Translators and Measurements:
Boethius http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Boethius.html
Adelard of Bath http://www.adelard.com/about/original_adelard.html
Gherard of Cremona http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gherard.html
Thomas Bradwardine http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Bradwardine.html
The Journey of Al & Gebra to the Land of Algebra
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Bendick
Fascinating Fibonacci's by Trudi Hammel Garland (Leonard of Pisa or Fibonacci-Italy 1180)
Bhaskara (1114 a.d.) first systematic explanation of arabic figures
***********
Early Modern Times (1300-1750) Age of Exploration
-Application of the compass in the western world and beginning of study of electromagnetism
-Madhava of Sangmagrama: (1340 India) pi and infinite series; founder of school of astronomy and mathematics
-Newton (1642 England) motion, gravitation, light, color, calculus (an interesting contrasting classic to this might be "Gulliver's Travels," which is something of a satire on Newton's "Principia"
-Napier (1550 Scotland)-trigonometry, logarithms, "mathemagician" magic :)
-Galileo (1564 Italy) astronomer; scientific method
-Pi (The Math Book, pg 110) fun to do in March with Pi Day, 3/14
-Pascal (1623 France) religious, mathematics, physics and science; pascal's triangle
-Euler (1707 Swiss) geometry, analysis (he was blind--amazing mental math!), topology (konigsburg bridge dilemma)
-Gerolamo Cardano (Italian 1501): mathematician, physician, astrologer; negative/imaginary numbers; probability
-René Descartes (1596 France)-mathematical connections, links in nature, geometry
-Fermat- (1601 France) layer, hobby of mathematics, geometry, proof, games, probability "Fermat's Enigma"
-Leeuwenhoek (1632 Dutch) lens maker, made first microscope, discovered microbes, persisted to work on his passion while employed in other occupations (De Kruif's "Microbe Hunters")
-Spallanzani (1729 Italy)-asked lots of questions, examined things, patiently proved that the concept of "spontaneous generation" was false, "Spallanzani was triumphant, but then he did the curious thing that only born scientists ever do--he tried to beat his own idea, his darling theory--by experiments he honestly and shrewdly planned to defeat himself. That is science! That is the strange self-forgetting spirit of a few rare men, those curious men to whom truth is more dear than their own cherished whims and wishes." (ibid, pg 37) Another great quote, "I have proved that there is a law and order int he science of animals, just as there is in the working of the stars." (pg 42) He went on expeditions collecting natural specimen.
-Treviso Arithmetic: European arithmetic text that discusses economics, shows need for a common economic denominator in coinage, currency, interest, and measurements. (The Math Book pg 108)
-Golden Ratio: so cool!
-Copernicus
-1714 Faranheit and the mercury thermometer
-"The Longitude Prize" a book about inventors and sea-navigation/clocks
-Mendeleyev:
--Mystery of the Periodic Table [Kindle Edition]
Benjamin Wiker (Author), Jeanne Bendick (Illustrator)1750-1900
-Lagrange (1736-France)
-Maria Agnesi (1718- Italy) abstract mathematics, made calculus textbook, dedicated to service to others--so much that it superceded her love of mathematics, importance of women getting an education,
-Benjamin Banneker (1731 African-American mathematician)-compiled almanacs, did surveying (great one to go with George Washington, also a surveyor)
-Biographies from "Brave Companions" by McCullough
-Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel. Later, he accepted a professorship at Harvard University in the United States.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (
listen (help·info); September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was a Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography.Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time in a manner generally considered to be a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. He was one of the first to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular).
-Faraday (1831)
-Kepler (See Whitehead's "Intro to Mathematics" page 28-30)
-Galvani (1780) and Volta (1792) study of electricity
-Linnaeus-Naturalist $40 to education himself
-Hugh Miller: apprentice to stone mason--great geologist
-George Stevenson: civil engineer: coal miner
-James Watt: Sickly
1900-present
Biographies from "Brave Companions" by McCullough:
"Long-Distance Vision" is about the experiences and literary works of several early aviators, including Charles Lindbergh, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, and Beryl Markham.
"Steam Road to El Dorado" is about the construction of the original Panama Railway in the 1850s.
"The Builders" concerns the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1870s, and particularly the life of engineer John A. Roebling and his son, Washington Roebling.
"The Treasure from the Carpentry Shop" concerns the rediscovery of the original plans for the Brooklyn Bridge in 1969.
"The Lonely War of a Good Angry Man", written in 1969, concerns the destructive environmental impact of strip mining in eastern Kentucky, and profiles Harry M. Caudill, local author and anti-strip mining political activist.
"Miriam Rothschild" is about the English zoologist and entomologist Miriam Rothschild.
BOOKS not mentioned above:
"String, Straight Edge and Shadow"
"Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe"
"Go Figure!" (read it all carefully!)
"Mathematicians are People, too" vol. 1 and 2
Free Choice (and any other approved reading—through mentor)
"The Phantom Tollbooth"
"Archimedes Door of Science"
"My Side of the Mountain"
The Warlord series (counts as 1): do the expts.
"Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis
"Brave Companions" by McCullough
"Microbe Hunters"
"Life of Fred" (any in series)
"Men and Mathematics" by Bell
"Elegant Universe"-video
"Flatland" "Fermat's Enigma"
"Evolution: is it science or faith?"
"On Numbers" by Asimov
"Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Latham
"The Disappearing Spoon"
"Time"
"Introduction to Mathematics" by Whitehead
"Number Devil"
"Cosmos"--video...
"All mimzy were the borrogoves"
"A Swiftly tilting planet"
"Hatchet"
"Scientific Discoveries that Strengthen Faith"
Complete any Saxon Math book
"Donald Duck in Mathematic land"
"E=mc2" video (see Jordan for details)
"The Number Devil"
"The Longitude Prize"
"Microbe Hunter"
"The Mystery of the Periodic Table"
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