math essay about logician

*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 logician’s 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 one’s 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