Easy math logic history project
*This project idea was inspired by Dr. McMurran and Dr. Johnson and used with their permissions.
Math 180 Logic History Project Due Thursday, June 4, 2020
1. Choose a logician from the list given. A maximum of three students may sign up for the same logician. Sign up for your logician on the Google Doc sent to your CSUSB email address. First come first served. This must be done by Thursday May. 14.
2. Write 1 or 2 journal entries as if they were being written by your logician. These entries
should tell an interesting story or anecdote related to your logicians life, and should be written from the perspective of your logician. Length requirement: half page.
3. Thoroughly describe some logical perspective, result or discovery that your logician is responsible for. Explain this discovery in detail. Do not just give a biography of your logician. Also, discuss the historical significance of this result. What impact did this result have on later logical thought, if any? Relate the logical ideas to what we have discussed in class. Length requirement: 1.5 pages.
4. General Guidelines: a. Use a cover page to identify yourself and to cite the resources/sources used. b. All items must be typed and printed on plain white paper, in 11 or 12-point black
font (either Times New Roman, Arial, or Calibri). Lines should be double spaced. c. Campus Policy on Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the act of presenting the ideas and writings of another as ones own. Plagiarism is a violation of the Student Discipline Code and makes the offending student liable to penalties up to and including expulsion. Students must make appropriate acknowledgements of the original source where material written or compiled by another is used.
5. Resources a. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/ b. One of the many useful sites for biographies of mathematicians is the MacTutor
History of Mathematics Archive at St. Andrews University. The webpage is http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk.
6. Grading (100 points 25% of grade)
Clear, correct English (clear correct sentences, grammar, spelling, etc) 8 points Proper format used 4 points Directions followed 3 points Journal entry informative and accurate 35 points Logical result detailed and accurate 50 points
List of Logicians
Al-Farabi
Aristotle
Avicenna
Babbage, Charles
Boole, George
Cantor, Georg
Chrysippus
DeMorgan, Augustus
Dharmakirti
Dignaga
Dodgson, Charles (Lewis Carroll)
Frege, Gottlob
Godel, Kurt
Hopper, Grace Murray
Hui Shi
Leibniz, Gottfried
Lovlace, Ada
Lukasiewicz, Jan
Mozi
Panini
Pascal, Blaise
Peano, Giusseppe
Plato
Ramsey, Frank
Robinson, Julia
Russell, Bertrand
Turing, Alan
Udayana
Venn, John
William of Ockham
