The topic that has been chosen for the Math Research Project is who is Kepler and what are the Laws he developed? To determine this Problem it has to be decided who is Kepler and what were his laws and why they were so important.
Johannes Kepler was born in Weil der Stadt in Swabia, in southwest Germany. His caring grandfather, Sebald Kepler, was a respected craftsman who served as mayor of the city; his grandfather, Melchior Guldenmann, was an innkeeper and mayor of the nearby village of Eltingen. His father, Heinrich Kepler, was rough and quarrelsome soldier according to Kepler, and he described his mother in similar terms. From 1574 to 1576 Johannes lived with his grandparents, in 1576 his parents moved to nearby Leonberg, where Johannes entered the Latin school. In 1584 he entered the Protestant academy at Adelberg, and in 1589 he began his university education at the Protestant university of Tübingen. Here he studied religion and read a great amount. He passed the M.A. examination in 1591 and continued his studies as a graduate student.
Kepler's teacher in the mathematical subjects was Michael Maestlin (1580-1635). Maestlin was one of the earliest astronomers to subscribe to Copernicus's heliocentric theory, although in his university lectures he taught only the Ptolemy system, but Kepler believes mostly in Copernicus’s heliocentric theory and disregarded the Ptolemy System.
In 1594 Kepler accepted an appointment as professor of mathematics at the Protestant school in Graz. He was also appointed district mathematician and calendar maker. Kepler remained in Graz until 1600, when all Protestants were forced to convert to Catholicism or leave the province, as part of Counter Reformation measures. For six years, Kepler taught arithmetic, geometry and language. In his spare time he pursued his private studies in astronomy and astrology. In 1597 Kepler married Barbara Müller. In that same year he published his first important work, The Cosmographic Mystery, in which he argued that the distances of the planets from the Sun in the Copernican system were determined by the five regular solids, if one supposed that a planet's orbit was bounded about one solid and inscribed in another.
Kepler created three laws dealing with the orbits of the planet are not circles but ellipse. The three Laws are:
Law I: Each planet revolves around the sun in an elliptical path, with the sun occupying one of the foci of the ellipse.
Law II: The straight line joining the sun and a planet sweeps out equal areas in equal intervals of time.
Law III: The squares of the planets' orbital periods are proportional to the cubes of the semi major axes of their orbits.
In conclusion this is just an outline. In the research paper it will in-depth details of who Johannes Kepler is and will describe and show details of each of his laws that will be proven with examples. Also talk more about his book Cosmographic Mystery.

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