Mathematics 129
Finding Info on Mathematicians
Research Process
- Choose your topic.
- Create a search strategy.
- Search.
- Evaluate.
- Revise, search again, evaluate.
- Use the information.
Choose your topic
- Choose your topic.
- Choose the mathematician as instructed.
- For brief biographical info to help you choose, use one of these sources.
- Your textbook
- McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (Ref Q121 M3 2007)
- Credo Reference
- Gale Virtual Reference
- MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Choose your topic for your "Mathematics enriches me" presentation and paper.
- Choose something that interests you.
For ideas, try one of these - Math History Topics
- Credo Reference
- Concept map using Google Advanced Search with "Wonder Wheel" under "Show Options."
- Identify what you need to know about your topic.
- Use the concept map.
- Use Questioning, Clustering or W Questions.
- Use the class handouts to organize your work.
- For additional help see Search Path Module 2.
Create your search strategy.
- Possible strategies
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- Find a book that is biography or autobiography of the mathematician.
- Find a book that is about the mathematical theory/contribution.
- Find biographical information on the web. See Class Suggestions.
- Use a database to find articles related to the mathematician or the theory
- Search for a website on the mathematician. See Class Suggestions.
- Search newspapers to see what was said about the person at the time he/she lived.
- Find the original works by the mathematician.
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