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  12. Image of: Grace Hopper at http://submit.thinkquest.org/TQ0312134/GraceHopper.html from http://www.hopper.navy.mil/grace/grace/htm IT2(SW) Meekma, jorm@hopper.navy.mil 3/28/03. Email message.
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References

Electronic Sources
Text or Multimedia from Web Pages
  1. Official Home of the USS Hopper, DDG 70: Grace Murray Hopper http://www.hopper.navy.mil/ 2/20/03
  2. Leonhard Euler Biography http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/EIMI/EulerBio.html. 2/20/03
  3. Blaise Pascal http://www.thocp.net/biographies/pascal_blaise.html. 2/25/03
  4. http://www.maths.tod.ie/pub/HestMath/People/Newton/RouseBall/RB_Newton.html. 3/6/03
  5. Mathematicians-Carl Friedrich Gauss http://www.ch172.thinkquest.hostcenter.ch/mathematicians4.html. 3/30/03
  6. Jacobsen, Pamela D. A math twist http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2000/09/12/p18s1.htm. 2/20/03
  7. Palmacci, Johnson, Carl Friedrich Gauss http://www.frc.mass.edu/smabrouk/calculus_III/History_Student_Web_Pages/Johnson_Palmacci/. 2/25/03
  8. Peterson, Ivars, Möbius and his Band http://www.sciencenews.org/2000708/mathtrek.asp. 2/20/03

Electronic Sources
Video tape

  1. The Platonic Solids Videos. Berkley, CA: Key Curriculum Press, 1991.

Printed Materials
Part of a book

  1. “Dynamics, Gravity” Physics Today (The World Book Encyclopedia of Science). Ed. Ardley, Neil and Matthews, Robert. Chicago: World Book, Inc, 1987, pp. 46-51
  2. Wahl, Mark “Living Things Count” A Mathematical Mystery Tour. Tucson, AZ: Zephyr Press, 1988, pp. 23-24
  3. Clark, Susan E. “Grace Murray Hopper — Computer Pioneer and Admiral” Celebrating Women in Mathematics and Science. Miriam P. Cooney. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1996, pp. 147-157
  4. Courtney, Barry, et al. “Moebius Facts” Hardhatting in a Geo-World. Ed. Wiebe, Arthur; Ecklung,Larry; Hillen, Judith. Fresno, CA: AIMS Education Foundation, 1986, pp. 56-57
  5. Dunham, William. “Leonhard Euler” Euler: The Master of Us All. Washington, DC: The Mathematical Association of America, 1999, pp. xix-xxviii
  6. Eves, Howard “Order Within Disorder” Great Moments in Mathematics After 1650. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America, 1983, pp. 4
  7. Jacobs, Harold. “The Fibonacce Sequence” Mathematics: A Human Endeavor. San Francisco: W H Freeman and Co., 1970, pp. 72-74
  8. Kaplan, Andrew and Petroni-McMullen, Ann. “Solid Figures” Math on Call: A Mathematics Handbook. Wilmington, MA: Great Source Education Group, 1998, pp. 393
  9. Maganzini, Christy Cool Math Ed. L. Rojany, C. Stringer, M. Thompson, D. Weizmann, W. Just. New York: Price Stern Sloan, Inc, 1997, pp. 31, 75, 76
  10. Pappas, Theoni. “dice and the Gaussian curve” More Joy of Mathematics. San Carlos, CA: Wide World Publishing/ Tetra, 1991, pp. 141
  11. Perl, Teri “Sofia Kovalevsky” Women and Numbers. San Carlos, CA: Wide World Publising/ Tetra, 1993, pp. 31-41
  12. Schwartz, David M. G is for Googol. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1998, pp. 14-15, 22-23

Printed Materials
Entire book

  1. Enzensberger, Hans Magnus. The Number Devil. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1998.
  2. Gies, Joseph and Frances. Leonard of Pisa and the New Mathematics of the Middle Ages. Gainesville, GA: Elliott Wave International, Inc, 1969.
  3. Schultz, Pearle and Harry. Isaac Newton, Scientific Genius. Champaign, IL: Garrard Publishing Co., 1972.

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