Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians (Mathematicians Are People, Too)

I bought this book for my wifes math class for college. She needed to write a research paper on one of the people in this book. She said it was a great resource for her research paper.

Mathematicians are People, Too has been a wonderful tool in introducing and enriching so many topics. There is a lot of useful information in this book and I have used it for both science and math lessons from the Pythagorean Theorem to density to women in the sciences, just to name a few.
The stories about real mathematicians brings a personal side to math and science and the reading of the stories brings added interest and diversity to the lessons.

This books is excellent for a read-aloud to your children about ages 7 or 8 to 12. (10 and up or so could read on their own.) I read a chapter aloud each week to my children, and when I felt they'd understand a mathematical principle, I would try to explain that to them as well. No, it's not going to teach them a ton of math, but it does build excitement and interest for math and it makes math seem more personable. And I really like it that they include famous women mathematicians.

We have had such a great time with this book. We have read it at night as a family then done some hands on experiments with the different storys theorys. We built our own pyramids from legos and measured them and their shadows to study about thales. We have done gravity with Galileo and Newton and learned about the stars with them as well.

Great book.