Great book.
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 Reimer1990 Dale Seymour PublicationsISBN 0-86651-509-7
Mathematicians Are People, Too (Volume II)By Luetta and Wilmer Reimer1995 Dale Seymour PublicationsISBN 0-86651-823-1
****** VOLUME I:******Pyramids, Olives, and Donkeys. ThalesThe Teacher Who Paid His Student. Pythagoras The Man Who Concentrated Too Hard. ArchimedesA Woman of Courage. Hypatia Magician or Mathematician? John Napier
Seeing Isn't Believing. Galileo Galilei Count on Pascal. Blaise PascalThe Short Giant. Isaac Newton The Blind Man Who Could See. Leonhard EulerThe Professor Who Did Not Know. Joseph Louis Lagrange Mathematics at Midnight. Sophie GermainThe Teacher Who Learned a Lesson. Carl Friedrich Gauss "Don't Let My Life Be Wasted!" Evariste GaloisLife 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 CardanoThe Stay-in-Bed Scholar. Rene Descartes An Amateur Becomes a Prince. Pierre de FermatThe Gift of Sympathy. Maria Agnesi The Shy Sky Watcher. Benjamin Banneker The Computer's Grandfather. Charles BabbageThe 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 EinsteinThe Master Problem Solver. George Polya
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