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1. Biographies of Mathematicians (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
   Provides short biographies of mathematicians by last name, period of history, or by search engine. 4-00

2. Mathematicians (Clark University - Joyce)
   Lists hundreds of the most famous mathematicians from 1700 B.C.E. through 1970 A.D. Does not provide biographies. 1-01

3. Women - Biographies of Women Mathematicians (Riddle)
   Provides biographies in alphabetical order and by time period. 2-00

4. Mathematicians by Date or Alphabetical (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
   Provides short biographies of great mathematicians, by date of birth or by last name. 4-00

5. Women Mathematicians (Association for Women in Mathematics)
   Provides brief biographies of women mathematicians of the twentieth century. 8-01

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7. Trigonometry Functions - History (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
   Provides a history of trigonometry functions and the mathematicians behind their discovery. 4-00

8. Comparison of Predicted vs Reported Votes (USCountVotes.org)
   " Mathematicians of many political colors have become interested in studying the November 2004 election because the likelihood of election results being significantly different than exit polls in over a half dozen battleground states is very very low. Exit polls are more accurate than pre-election polls." 12-04

9. Statistical Analysis of Voting Anomolies (USCountVotes.org)
   "A group of independent mathematicians, statisticians and computer professionals has formed a new, volunteer scientific research project to objectively investigate the accuracy of elections in America." 12-04

10. Euclid (Gurupedia.com)
    "Euclid of Alexandria (Greek: Eukleides) (circa 365-275 BC) was a Greek mathematician who lived in the 3rd century BC in Alexandria. His most famous work is the Elements, a book in which he deduces the properties of geometrical objects and integers from a set of axioms, thereby anticipating the axiomatic method of modern mathematics. Although many of the results in the Elements originated with earlier mathematicians, one of Euclid's major accomplishments was to present them in a single logically coherent framework. The geometry of Euclid was known for many centuries as 'the' geometry, but is nowadays referred to as Euclidean geometry." 8-05

11. Emeagwali, Philip (Time Magazine)
    "It's hard to say who invented the Internet. There were many mathematicians and scientists who contributed to its development; computers were sending signals to each other as early as the 1950s. But the Web owes much of its existence to Philip Emeagwali, a math whiz who came up with the formula for allowing a large number of computers to communicate at once." 02-07

12. The 46th Mersenne Prime (Time.com)
    "A Mersenne number is a positive number that can be expressed in the form 2n-1. A Mersenne prime is a Mersenne number that is, well, prime. Searching for higher and higher Mersenne primes is the unofficial national sport of mathematicians. The 45th and 46th (right) Mersenne primes were found this year, the latter by a team at UCLA. It has almost 13 million digits." 10-08

13. The Order of Operations (Houghton Mifflin Company)
    "When children initially learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, they begin by performing operations on two numbers. But what happens when an expression requires multiple operations? Over time, mathematicians have developed a set of rules called the order of operations to determine which operation to do first."

14. Bridge Paradoxes (Pavlicek)
    "The subject of probability in bridge can be confusing to those who are not mathematicians. The purpose of this study is to clear up a few of the misconceptions or paradoxes that continue to confuse bridge players." 6-05