Unscramble these names with the aid of the clues provided and then locate them in the mathematician maze below. Look horizontally, vertically, and diagonally.
1. CDEILU – father of geometry
2. SEDSETRAC – Frenchman who merged algebra and geometry into analytic geometry
3. AAGHOPRSTY – author of right triangle theorem: a2 + b2 = c2
4. AGSSU – prince of mathematicians
5. LACSAP – a magic triangle based on the coefficients of the terms in a binomial expansion is named
after him
6. BFFIKROH – modern mathematician who worked in many areas, including dynamical systems, the
four-color problem, and number theory
7. EEHNORT – woman who developed the theory of rings
8. LERUE – a slick fellow who extended the calculus and gave us the Greek symbol for pi.
9. ENNOTW – cofounder of the calculus along with #10
10. BEIILNZ – cofounder of the calculus along with #9
11. AKNT – wrote Critique of Pure Reason
12. DDDEEIKN – developed a theorem concerning the irrational numbers and their place in the real
number system
13. ROCANT – developed the theory of sets
14. BELOO – logician who defined new binary operations for algebra
15. ACEINOPR – demonstrated the relationship between geometry and the physical world
16. AENNNUM – founder of the theory of games and the designer of electronic high-speed computers
17. LLIEOAG – was concerned with gravity and falling objects
18. BCCIIAFON – brought about the adoption of Arabic numerals; wrote Liber Abaci
19. DEEIMORV – interested in probability and imaginary quantities; developed the formula
(cos x + I sin x)n = cos nx + I sin nx
20. SUNATHPIOD – toyed with linear equations with integral roots only
21. EIPNAR – developed rule of circular parts for spherical trigonometry; invented logarithms
22. MIESARCDHE – estimated pi by inscribing regular polygons in a circle
23- 25. Three scientists who definitely needed math in their research:
23. PYTMELO
24. TLPOA
25. EERPKL
26. TTSHEEESARON – developed sieve to find prime numbers
27. RREUD – inventor of a mechanical means of drawing objects in perspective
28. BEISUMO – constructed a topological surface with only one side
29. TAEMRE -- differentiated simple algebraic functions to find their maxima and minima
30. STINEEIN – credited with E = mc2
31. SSKHNA – calculated pi to 707 decimal places in late 1800s
32. LLRROAC – pseudonym of Charles Dodgson, a mathematician who wrote Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland
33. EOZN – a Greek whose mose famous paradox deals with the race between Achilles and the tortoise
34. GLDBCHAO – conjectured that every even number is the sum of two primes (e.g., 8 = 5 + 3,
24 = 19 + 5)
35. AAITYHP – an early woman astronomer and mathematician who met with a brutal death
