1236 /www/nrich/html/content/00/06/game2/ 2 2011-02-01T00:00:01 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mdoxml version="1.0"><br></br><p>Here are the names of 30 famous mathematicians given as anagrams with pictures which might help you find the first two.</p> <div style="text-align: center;"> <mdo:image width="90" height="120" src="game2_1.gif" alt="Guess who!"></mdo:image><mdo:image width="90" height="109" src="game2_2.gif" alt="Guess who!"></mdo:image></div> <br></br> <p>As a class or club project you might like to find as many of the names as you can. To help you with this search you could use some history of maths websites or library books. From these sources you could also find out when these famous mathematicians lived and what they discovered.</p> <p>Can you devise a game based on this information? If so do send us the details and we'll publish the rules of your game for others to play.</p> <ol> <li>YO KAVAK SLAVE</li> <li>WONNET</li> <li>TRAFEM</li> <li>INNESTIE</li> <li>STAYGORAPH</li> <li>PAY THAI</li> <li>DICUEL</li> <li>CLASPA</li> <li>DECRAMIESH</li> <li>ENZO</li> <li>ANA RUN JAM</li> <li>ZEILBIN</li> <li>LERPEK</li> <li>ORIEFUR</li> <li>INKLE</li> <li>AGLERGAN</li> <li>CLAPALE</li> <li>SCARDEEST</li> <li>YECLAY</li> <li>OLOBE</li> <li>SASUG</li> <li>SAILGO</li> <li>REELU</li> <li>YACHUC</li> <li>BELA</li> <li>SOPISNO</li> <li>SEBLES</li> <li>NARCAD</li> <li>THE RONE</li> <li>BERTHIL</li> </ol> <br></br> <br></br></mdoxml> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mdoxml version="1.0"><ol> <li>Kovalevskaya</li> <li>Newton</li> <li>Fermat</li> <li>Einstein</li> <li>Pythagoras</li> <li>Hypatia</li> <li>Euclid</li> <li>Pascal</li> <li>Archimedes</li> <li>Zeno</li> <li>Ramanujan</li> <li>Leibniz</li> <li>Kepler</li> <li>Fourier</li> <li>Klein</li> <li>Lagrange</li> <li>Laplace</li> <li>Descartes</li> <li>Cayley</li> <li>Boole</li> <li>Gauss</li> <li>Galois</li> <li>Euler</li> <li>Cauchy</li> <li>Abel</li> <li>Poisson</li> <li>Bessel</li> <li>Canard</li> <li>Noether</li> <li>Hilbert</li> </ol></mdoxml> 2 3 0 1 1 1 0 Can you identify the mathematicians? Using, Applying and Reasoning about Mathematics Games History and Philosophy of Mathematics Famous mathematicians