Credits
We want to take this opportunity to thank the following websites and people.
Stock images were used from stck.xchng.
Our coaches
Mr. Chia and Mr.Gi, thank you for the effective allocation of manpower, the encouragement as well as your constructive suggestions.
People who read the articles
We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to those who were involved in the audio recording. They are Kai, Dennis, Lee Kee, Wu Chean, Fritzie, R. Shiva, Xin En, Visoth and Vina.
Mr. Kwek
Thanks for opening the Science & Technology lab for us so we can take the photos of the Maze.
We would also wish to thank all the people who gave valuable feedback on our work.
Bibliography
General Information/Images
- Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/
Famous Mathematicians
- Pictures
"Picture of Charles Babbage"
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afbeelding:CharlesBabbage.jpg
"Picture of Pythagoras"
http://www.epsilones.com/imagenes/retratos/pythagoras.jpg
"Picture of Archimedes"
http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/webpics/archimedes.jpg
"Picture of Fibonacci"
http://www.math.ethz.ch/fibonacci/fibonacci.jpg
"Picture of Pascal"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Blaise_pascal.jpg
- "Pythagoras." Wikipedia.org. Viewed: March 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras
- "Charles Babbage." Wikipedia.org. Viewed: March 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbage
- "Fibonacci." Wikipedia.org. Viewed: March 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci
- "Blaise Pascal." Wikipedia.org. Viewed: March 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal
- "Archimedes." Wikipedia.org. Viewed: March 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes
- "10.2.Archimedes(287?-212 B.C.)." Bert G. Wachsmuth. Viewed: March 2006
http://www.shu.edu/projects/reals/history/archimed.html
- "Who was Charles Babbage?." Charles Babbage Institute. Viewed: March 2006
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/exhibits/cb.html
- "Biographies Of Mathematicians." Keith G. Calkins. Viewed: March 2006
http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/biograph/199899/biotoc.htm
- "Biographies Of Mathematicians." Keith G. Calkins. Viewed: March 2006
http://www2.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/biograph/biotoc.htm
Applications of Mathematics
- "Golden ratio." Wikipedia.org. Viewed: April 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
- "Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section." Dr Ron Knott. Viewed: April 2006.
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/
- "The Golden Section." GoldenNumber.net. Viewed: April 2006
http://goldennumber.net/goldsect.htm
- "The Measure of Beauty Created in Nature: The Golden Ratio" Harun Yahya. Viewed: April 2006
http://www.harunyahya.com/articles/70golden_ratio.html
- "Mathematics In Everyday Life" Cand. Scient Reidar Mosvold. Viewed: April 2006
http://www.vxu.se/msi/picme10/L3MR.pdf
- "Applying 4th Grade Math to Business Success." Matt Inglot. Viewed: April 2006
http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/04/14/applying-grade-4-math-to-business-success/
- "Unnatural Geometry In The 'Natural' World" Infinite Technologies. Viewed: April 2006
http://www.infinitetechnologies.co.za/articles/geometry1.html
- "Fibonacci - International Man Of Mathematics." Viewed: April 2006
http://techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us/Group2/
- "The Golden Ratio In Nature." Viewed: April 2006
http://students.bath.ac.uk/ma1caab/nature.html
- "Golden Ratio and Human Body." Viewed: April 2006
http://educ.queensu.ca/~fmc/october2001/GoldenBody.htm
- "Human Body and the Golden Section." Radoslav Jovanovic. Viewed: April 2006
http://milan.milanovic.org/math/english/body/
- "Analysis Of Algorithms." Wikipedia.org. Viewed: April 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_of_algorithms
- "Information Technology." Wikipedia.org. Viewed: April 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology
- "Theory Of Computation." Wikipedia.org. Viewed: April 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_computation
- "Binary - So Simple a Computer Can Do It" Kerry Redshaw. Viewed: April 2006
http://www.kerryr.net/pioneers/binary.htm
- "Binary Numeral System." Wikipedia.org. Viewed: April 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system
- "Formal Methods." Wikipedia.org. Viewed: April 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_methods
History of Math
- Maps
"World Map"
http://www.acbr.com/fas/Maps/Maps.htm
"Ancient Babylonia Map"
http://www.path-light.com/Revjpgs/Babylon_map.gif
"Egypt Map"
http://www.pnm.my/mtcp/images/maps/Egypt-map.jpg
"Greece Map"
http://www.map-of-greece.co.uk/maps/Greece.gif
- Math in ancient China
"Gougu Theorem"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem
http://mathforum.org/isaac/problems/pythagthm.html
The photo is from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chinese_pythagoras.jpg
"Nine chapters on the mathematics arts"
http://www-circa.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Nine_chapters.html
http://www.math.sfu.ca/histmath/China/1stCenturyAD/NineChapters.html
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Math in Arab
"Development of algebra
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~sxw8045/history.htm
http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/ScienceMath/Math.html
"Arabic numerals"
http://www.islamicity.com/Mosque/ihame/Ref6.htm
http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/ScienceMath/Math.html
"Arabic Numerals Picture"
http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/ScienceMath/numerals2.gif
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Math in Greece
"Euclid's Elements"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid's_Elements
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/d-mathematics/Greek_math.html
"Preserved Manuscript of Elements" (photo)
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/d-mathematics/images/math01.jpg
"Greece's contribution to Mathematics"
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html
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Math in Babylonia
"Babylonian Numerals"
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ma2jc/babylonian.html
"Babylonian Numerals Picture"
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Diagrams/Hieroglyph.gif
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Math in Egypt
"Egyptian Numerals"
http://www.eyelid.co.uk/numbers.htm
"Egyptian Numerals Picture"
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ma2jc/Babylonian_symbols.gif
"Egyptian Fractions"
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fractions/egyptian.html
Disclaimer
Information presented on this web site was researched, collated, and provided for educational purposes only. Although every effort was made to ensure that the data presented is reliable and accurate, we make no guarantee regarding the validity of the information, links, and sources. Please note that the team will not be liable for any damages of any kind.