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Title: Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians by Luetta Reimer, Wilbert Reimer ISBN: 0-86651-509-7 Publisher: Pearson Learning Pub. Date: December, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful Minds
Comment: I'm a former math major, and I loved these books! I used both volumes about six years ago, when I was homeschooling our youngest son. If I were teaching math in an elementary or middle school, I would try to incorporate these two volumes of biographies into the curriculum.
I especially liked that the Reimers included stories of women mathematicians. In my experience, far too many girls give up on math at an early age, and it's important for them to have role models. In fact, few kids of EITHER gender can picture themselves as mathematicians. Before the movie A Beautiful Mind, would an average child have been able to name even one famous mathematician?
The chapter titles are very catchy, which is important for children, especially since many of them approach the subject with a negative attitude.
Because of the confusion in the two titles, I am listing the publishing information for each volume, along with the table of contents. I wish the Reimers would do a third volume!
Mathematicians Are People, Too (Volume I)
By Luetta and Wilmer Reimer
1990 Dale Seymour Publications
ISBN 0-86651-509-7
Mathematicians Are People, Too (Volume II)
By Luetta and Wilmer Reimer
1995 Dale Seymour Publications
ISBN 0-86651-823-1
****** VOLUME I:******
Pyramids, Olives, and Donkeys. Thales
The Teacher Who Paid His Student. Pythagoras
The Man Who Concentrated Too Hard. Archimedes
A Woman of Courage. Hypatia
Magician or Mathematician?John Napier
Seeing Isn't Believing. Galileo Galilei
Count on Pascal. Blaise Pascal
The Short Giant. Isaac Newton
The Blind Man Who Could See. Leonhard Euler
The Professor Who Did Not Know. Joseph Louis Lagrange
Mathematics at Midnight. Sophie Germain
The Teacher Who Learned a Lesson. Carl Friedrich Gauss
"Don't Let My Life Be Wasted!" Evariste Galois
Life on an Obstacle Course. Emmy Noether
Numbers Were His Greatest Treasure. Srinivasa Ramanujan
******* VOLUME II:*******
There's Only One Road. Euclid
A Fortune Shared. Omar Khayyam
Lean on the Blockhead. Leonard of Pisa (Fibonacci)
The Conceited Hypochondriac. Girolamo Cardano
The Stay-in-Bed Scholar. Rene Descartes
An Amateur Becomes a Prince. Pierre de Fermat
The Gift of Sympathy. Maria Agnesi
The Shy Sky Watcher. Benjamin Banneker
The Computer's Grandfather. Charles Babbage
The Mystery of X and Y. Mary Somerville
The Overlooked Genius. Neils Abel
Conducting the Computer Symphony. Ada Lovelace
The Lessons on the Wall. Sonya Kovalevsky
The Compass Points the Way. Albert Einstein
The Master Problem Solver. George Polya
Marjorie Alley
Rating: 5
Summary: Teach your children to love Math the fun way
Comment: We have had such a great time with this book. We have read it at night as a family then done some hands on experiments with the different storys theorys. We built our own pyramids from legos and measured them and their shadows to study about thales. We have done gravity with Galileo and Newton and learned about the stars with them as well.
Great book.
Rating: 5
Summary: WONDERFUL DUET OF BOOKS
Comment: It's hard to tell from the titles, but there are 2 volumes of this book; I think this is volume 1. Each volume has 15 short stories about famous mathematicians, suitable for any age from (I'm guessing) 8 to adult. I've been reading these stories for family reading, and my 11 year old son is actually excited about geometry! After reading about Pascal, we did some internet research about cycloids and hypocycloids; more commonly known as the figures that can be drawn with a Spirograph. Volume One has chapters on the following people: Thales, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Hypatia, Napier, Galileo, Pascal, Newton, Euler, Lagrange, Germain, Gauss, Galois, Noether and Ramanujan. Volume 2 covers Euclid, Khayyam, Fibonacci, Cardano, Descartes, Fermat, Agnesi, Banneker, Babbage, Somerville, Abel, Lovelace, Kovalevsky, Einstein and Polya. I highly recommend this book for increasing a child's (or an adult's) interests in the fields of math, geometry, physics and philosophy. I wish there was a Volume Three!
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Title: Mathmaticians are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians by Luetta Reimer, Wilbert Reimer ISBN: 0866518231 Publisher: Pearson Learning Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.65 |
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Title: Of Men and Numbers : The Story of the Great Mathematicians by Jane Muir ISBN: 0486289737 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 09 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.15 |
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Title: The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker by Cynthia DeFelice ISBN: 0380729202 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 2: The Middle Ages by Susan Wise Bauer, Patty Martirosian, Jay Wise ISBN: 0971412936 Publisher: Peace Hill Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat: The Mathematical Cat by Theoni Pappas ISBN: 1884550142 Publisher: Wide World Pub Tetra Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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