*You may choose any mathematician you would like for your project. However, no two students can have the same mathematician in the same class period.
A great resource for mathematician research: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Indexes/Full_Alph.html
Mathematicians:
Abu Ali al Haytham
Agnesi, Maria
Al-Khwarizmi
Apollonius
Archimedes
Babbage, Charles
Barrow, Isaac
Bernoulli, Daniel
Bernoulli, Jacob
Bernoulli, Johann
Bombelli, Rafael
Brahmagupta
Cantor, Georg
Cardano, Girolamo
Cauchy, Augustin-Louis
Cayley, Arthur
Diophantus of Alexandria
De Morgan, Augustus
Einstein, Albert
Escher, Maurits
Euclid
Euler, Leonhard
Fermat, Pierre de
Fibonacci, Leonardo
Frobenius, Georg
Galileo, Galilei
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Germain, Sophie
Heron
Hipparchus of Rhodes
Hippocrates of Chios
Hobbes, Thomas
Hypatia of Alexandria
Kelvin, Lord Thompson
Kepler, Johannes
LaGrange, Joseph-Louis
Lambert, Johann
Leibniz, Gottfried von
Malebranche, Nicolas
Mobius, August
Napier, John
Newton, Sir Isaac
Omar Khayyam
Pappus of Alexandria
Pascal
Ptolemy
Plato
Pythagoras
Recorde, Robert
Regiomontanus, Johann
Riemann, G F Bernhard
Salmon, George
Thabit ibn Qurra, Abu'l
Thales
Theodorus of Cyrene
Tsu Ch'ung Chi
Venn, John
Viète, François
Wallis, John
Weierstrass, Karl
Topics:
An Investigation of the Number e
Archimedes Palimpsest
Math in the Middle Ages
History and Value of Pi
Four Color Theorem
Wikipedia Lists of Catholic Mathematicians and Scientists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_Catholic_cleric%E2%80%93scientists?vm=r