Math 105 CSUDH

Finite Mathematics Dr. S. Moite

Optional Book Report (5 points extra credit)

Report on a biography book about one of the mathematicians/scientists listed below, who are mentioned in your Finite Math text. Your report should be about two and a half pages long if typed double space. It must include

1) The name and author of the book (a complete book on one of these people).

2) A description and summary of the contents of the book.

3) Your opinion of the book.

Thomas Bayes (1702-1761) Wilhelm Jordan (1842-1899)

Jakob Bernoulli (1654-1705) Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827)*

George Boole (1815-1864)* Wassily Leontief (1906-1999)

Georg Cantor (1845-1918) Andrei A. Markov (1856-1922)

Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576) Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)*

Arthur Cayley (1821-1895) Oskar Morgenstern (1902-1977)

George B. Dantzig (1914-2005) John Forbes Nash (1928- )*

Abraham De Moivre (1667-1754) Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)*

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)* Reinhard Selten (1930- )

Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665) James Joseph Sylvester

(1814-1897)

John Harsanyi (1920-2000) John Venn (1834-1923)

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)* John von Neumann (1903-1957)*

* Biography in CSUDH library