Ranking for Mathematician

Format for Mathematician Rankin a list 4 paragraphs in total.

List of Matematician

• Name of highest ranked mathematician
• Name of second highest ranked mathematician
• Name of third highest ranked mathematician                     
•  Introduction – one paragraph explaining what makes a mathematician’s contributions important to you and the world.

  Body – Three paragraphs, , one for each mathematician, explaining how the mathematician’s contributions met your criteria.

• Conclusion – One paragraph comparing your previously assigned mathematician 1 to the mathematicians you chose as the top three. Explain whether your assigned mathematician 1 meets your criteria for inclusion 1 in the top three and if included,where in the top three your assigned mathematician would rank.
   
• Here the three Matematicians for this work :

• Mary Fairfax Somerville

  Born:
  1780 in Jedburgh, Scotland

  Died:
  1872 in Italy

  Approximately
  80 years old at the time of death.

  Mary is one of the few and outstanding female mathematicians
  that existed in Europe in the 19^th century. The scholar was a
  mathematician, philosopher and geographer who worked and associated with the
  leading scientists and mathematicians of her time (O’Connor, & Robertson,
  1999a). Her friends included Charles Babbage, Poisson and William Herschel.

  Among Mary’s notable accomplishments was her
  translation and explanation of Laplace‘s
  Mécanique Céleste (O’Connor, & Robertson, 1999a). The work
  was unfamiliar with most of the mathematicians of the time from Britain. She
  also published books that include The connection of the physical sciences and
  also Physical geography, which was used up to the beginning of the 20^th
  century in universities and colleges.

   
  References

  O’Connor, J. J., & Robertson, E. F. (1999a). Mary
  Fairfax Greig Somerville. Retrieved February 02, 2016, from
  http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Somerville.html

• Evelyn Boyd Granville

  Born: May 1, 1924

  Passed: Presently still alive

  Approximate age: 92

   
  Granville was the second African-American woman to ever get a Ph.D in
  mathematics, after graduating she became a professor of mathematics at Fisk
  University. She left teaching to work for the National Bureau of Standards in
  Washington, D.C., she worked on the development of missiles. After she went to
  work for IBM when IBM stated to work with NASA, working with computer software
  on projects like Vanguard and Mercury space programs. After working with IBM
  and NASA for a little over 10 years she returned to teaching mathematics and
  computer science.

  Sources:

   
  Iography.com Editors. (n.d.). Evelyn Boyd Granville Biography. Retrieved
  February 21, 2016, from
  http://www.biography.com/people/evelyn-boyd-granville-21442045#prominent-mathematician

• Sophie Germain

  Born: April 1^st 1776 in France

  Died: June 27^th 1831 in France

  Approximate age of death 60

  Sophie was a woman in the revolutionary time
  period where woman were expected to do house work and not have interests in
  mathematics. She first started her obsession when she was a teenager and she
  read a book about a man killing a soldier over a geometric shape. Her parents
  went through extraordinary measurements to stop her but she prevailed. Sophie
  taught herself calculus without a teacher, among many other topics.

  In 1804 she started writing to another
  mathematician and she disguised herself as a man while they conversed over
  numbers theories. This man was so intrigued when he found out that he had been
  speaking to a brilliant woman all along. She tried and tried for years to win
  an award for her works in elasticity but fell short every time. Before she
  could receive her Honorary Degree she died from breast cancer.

  Source:

  “Euclid of Alexandria.” Euclid
  Biography. Web. 01 Feb. 2016. <http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Biographies/Euclid.html>.