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, most of whom 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) Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)*

Jakob Bernoulli (1654-1705) Wilhelm Jordan (1842-1899)

George Boole (1815-1864)* Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827)*

Lewis Carroll (Charles Wassily Leontief (1906-1999)

Dodgson) (1832-1898)*

Arthur Cayley (1821-1895) Andrei A. Markov (1856-1922)

Anders Celsius (1701-1744) Alfred Marshall (1842-1924)*

George B. Dantzig (1914-2005) Oskar Morgenstern (1902-1977)

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

Augustus De Morgan Claude Shannon (1916-2001)

(1806-1871)

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)* James Joseph Sylvester

(1814-1897)

Leonhard Euler (1707-1761) John Venn (1834-1923)

Gabriel Fahrenheit John von Neumann (1903-1957)*

(1686-1736)

* Biography in CSUDH library