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HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS

Who published a treatise on trigonometry which contains the earliest use of our abbreviations: sin, tan, for sine, tangent and secant?

Albert Garard

Gregorio de Saint

John Napier

Johann Herdde

An 18th century Swiss Mathematician, he introduced the "law of Large Numbers" in his (The Art of Conjecture). In Statistics, this implies that the larger the sample, the more likely will the sample become representative of the population. Who was he?

Girolamo Cardano

Bertrand Russell

Jacob Bernoulli

Stephen Baldwin

He has been described as the greatest "might have been" in the history of mathematics

Blaise Pascal

Gaspard Monge

Bonaventura Cavalier

Gregorio de Saint

He invented a method of determining the optical values of a linear function subject to certain constraints. This method is known as linear programming. Who was he?

George Canter

Bertrand Russel

George Dantzig

Richard Dedekin

He was a 16th Century mathematician, who was the first to define that the probability of an even to happen is the quotient of the number of the favorable outcomes and the number of all outcome. Who was he?

Stephen Baldwin

Blaise Pascal

Girolamo Cardano

Richard Dedekind

The first to discover "ZERO"

Babylonian

Chinese

Egyptian

Indian

He was mostly remembered for his formula for which was important in the early development of the theory of complex numbers and for predicting the day of his own death.

Abraham de Moivre

Jacob Bernoulli

Leonhard Euler

Collin Maclaurin

He achieved real fame when he submitted a paper to the Institute solving one of Fermat's claims on polygonal numbers made to Mersenne. He also wrote the memoir on definite integrals that later became the basis of his theory of complex functions.

Evariste Galois

Georg Cantor

Bernhard Riemann

Augustin Cauchy

Italian mathematician during the Renaissance period who was credited for solving one of the outstanding ancient problems of mathematics, cubic equations

Niccolo Tartaglia

Gerolamo Cardano

Scipione del Ferro

Regilomontanus

A Russian Mathematician in the 19th century who would instead develop geometry without Euclid's fifth postulate and whose achievement exhibits the development of non-Euclidean Geometry.

Augustin Cauchy

Nikolai Lobachevsky

Francois Viete

Patnuti Chevyshev

A Greek mathemetician who remembered for his prime number sieve

Anaxagoras

Eratosthenes

Pythagoras

Thales

He was the mathematician who proposed basic descriptions of a point, a line and shapes. He also discovered that square root of two is an irrational number and that there were infinitely many prime number.

Anaxagoras

Archimedes

Eratosthenes

Euclid

An 18th Century mathematician who enunciated the principles of Calculus of variations and became a lecturer in the Royal Artillery School at the age of 19.

Jean Baptiste Fourier

Jean D' Alembert

Pierre Simon Laplace

Louis Lagrange

Known as the father of modern analysis during 19th century who also devised tests for the convergence and contributed to the theory of periodic functions, Abelian functions, elliptic functions, etc.

Evariste Galois

Johann Carl Gauss

Johann Dirichlet

Karl Wierstrass

He proved his famous "Basis Theorem" as he worked on invariant theory and challenged mathematicians to solve fundamental questions that led to his famous speech "the Problems of Mathematics".

Augustin Cauchy

David Hilbert

Karl Wierstrass

Patnuti Chevyshev

A "grand" Russian mathematician who gave the basis for applying the theory of probability to statistical data, worked on number of prime number not exceeding a given number, and proved Bertran's conjecture in 1850.

Augustin Cauchy

Patnuti Chebyshev

Francios Viete

Nikolai Lobachevsky

A mathematician of medieval ages who invented a type of coordinate geometry by finding the logical equivalence between tabulating values and graphing them

Nocile Oresme

Leonardo Fibonacci

Roger Bacon

Rene Descartes

A rich mathematician in France who invented a new, non-Greek way of doing geometry, now call "projective" or "modern geometry".

Leonhard Euler

Francois Viete

Girard Desarques

John Napier

He was considered a universal genius by his contemporaries whose work encompasses not only Mathematics and Philosophy but also Theology, Law, Diplomacy, Politics and Physics. He also developed the basic notations of his version of the Calculus and perfected the binary system of arithmetic

Bonaventura Cavalieri

Christian Huygens

Gottfried Leibnitz

Rene Descartes

A Greek mathematician whose most significant accomplishments were those concerning a cylinder circumscribing a sphere and asked for a representation of this together with his result on the ratio of the two to be inscribed on his tomb.

Aristotle

Plato

Eratosthenes

Pythagoras

A 19th century mathematician who added the integers for 1 to 100 within seconds by a flash of mathematical insights

Augustin Cauchy

Evariste Galois

Johann Dirichlet

Joahann Gauss

One of the earliest cities of the world built in India and was built to carefully planned and tessellations

Harappa

Mohenjo-Daro

Vedic

Indus

He did notable work in Germany. Particularly studying higher plane curves. He also considered the geometric problem of finding the difference between the volume of the frustum of a solid of revolution and the volume of the cylinder of the same height as frustum

Johann Bernoulli

Colin Maclaurin

Pierre Simon Laplace

Joseph Louis Largrange

An extinct Mesoamerican culture with surviving treatise on astronomy called Dresden Codex and used vigesimal number system

Incans

Africans

Native Americans

Mayans

It is the famous Chinese Mathematics book of all time which is also called Nine Chapters on Mathematical Art

Jiuzhang Suanshu

Suan Chu

Arithmetic Classic of the Gnomon

Chou Pei Suan Ching

A Bernoulli who considered the function and investigated series using the method of integration by parts

Jacob Bernoulli

Nicolaus Bernoulli

Daniel Bernoulli

Johann Bernoulli

The FIRST mathematician to attempt to classify according to the types of equations that produce them and also made contributions to the theory of equations

Pierre de Fermat

Rene Descartes

Blaise Pascal

Bonaventura Cavalieri

He was the writer of set theory and was first to appreciate the value of one-to-one correspondence for set theory

Augustin Cauchy

George Boole

Georg Philip Cantor

Nikolai Lobachevsky

He wrote De Triangulus Omnimodis, a systematic account of methods for solving triangles, and made important contributions to Trigonometry and Astronomy

Regiomontanus

Girolamo Cardano

Scipione del Ferro

Niccolo Tartaglia

His greatest contributions include such groundbreaking texts in invention of dividing rods used as multiplication tables

Francois Viete

Marin Mersenne

Johannes Kepier

John Napier

Began the Algebra of logic by approaching logic in a new way, reducing to a simple Algebra and incorporating logic into Mathematics

Carl Gauss

Evariste Galois

George Boole

Abraham De Moivre

Which is NOT TRUE about mathematics teaching in the 18th century

Mathematics education was rigorous, rigid, and classroom sessions were lengthly

Mathematicians were known either through publication or through paper presentation

Mathematics was taught to gain more insights about religious living

Some mathematicians could not help being involved in politics

This century came to be known as the Age of Scientific Revolution which saw an unprecedented explosion of mathematical and scientific ideas across Europe

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

`19th Century

It is a period prior to people kept written records

Paleolithic Age

Neolithic Age

Ethnomathematics

Prehistory

An 18th century mathematician who invented an analytical machine that can tabulate the values of any function and print the results

Jean Fourier

Charles Babbage

Pierre Simon Laplace

Jean-le-Rond D' Alembert

To whom the Greeks inherited their mathematical basis?

Babylonian

Chinese

Egyptian

Indain

People in Early Civilization who used Quipo to encode the numerical details and a counting board, called YUPANA, to solve mathematical problems

Africans

Incans

Mayans

Native Americans

A 17th Century French mathematician, philosopher, and scientist who was honored by having Cartesian coordinate system. His rule of signs is also a commonly used method in modern Mathematics

Blaise Pascal

Pierre de Fermat

Rene Descartes

Bonaventura Cavalieri

He was considered as the father of differential geometry who introduced geometrie descriptive now known as orthographic projection

Pierre Simon Laplace

Gaspard Monge

Jean Fourier

Joseph Louis Lagrange

Who laid the foundations for differential and integral Calculus?

Gottfried Leibnitz

Sir Isaac Newton

Christian Huygens

Rene Descartes

Who introduced topographical methods into complex function theory and examined the zeta function (s) = (1/ns)=(1-p-s)-1 which resulted to one of the most important of the unsolved problems of Mathematics?

Georg Cantor

George Bool

Bernhard Riemann

Evariste Galois

A 16th Century who proposed the "Apollonian Problem" (drawing a circle to touch 3 given circles) and introduced the first systematic algebraic notation in his book "In Artem Analyticam Isagoge" (Introduction to the Analytic Art)

Francois Viete

Johan Napier

Johannes Kepler

Marin Mersenne

A Bernoulli who won in Paris Academy on 1725 because of his design of an hour glass to be used at sea and published Mathematical exercises in 1724 which consisted of four topics

Jacob Bernoulli

Nicolaus Bernoulli

Daniel Bernoulli

Johann Bernoulli

An Italian mathematician best known today by his principle "the volume of two objects are equal if the areas of their corresponding cross-sections are in all cases equal" and was responsible for introducing logarithms as a computational tool in Italy

Pierre de Fermat

Rene Descartes

Blaise Pascal

Bonaventura Cavalieri

What ancient civilization is credited with the invention of the number system that uses the concept of ZERO?

Greek

Roman

Babylonian

Indian

Who is often referred to as the "Father of Geometry" and wrote the famous work "Elements"?

Euclid

Pythagoras

Archimedes

Aristotle

In which century did the Italian mathematician Fibonacci introduce the Fibonacci sequence to the Western world?

12th Century

14th Century

16th Century

18th Century

Which mathematician made significant contributions to calculus and is known for his laws of motion and universal gravitation?

Isaac Newton

Blaise Pascal

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Rene Descartes

Who is known for Fermat's Last Theorem and his work in number theory?

Leonhard Euler

Pierre de Fermat

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Andrew Wiles

What is the name of the ancient Chinese mathematical text that contains a method for solving systems of linear equations using matrices?

The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art

The Arithmetical Classic of the Gnomon and the Circular Paths

The Sea Island Mathematical Manual

The Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections

Which ancient Greek Mathematician is often credited with the discovery of the Pythagorean Theorem?

Euclid

Pythagoras

Archimedes

Hipparchus

Who is known for the development of the Cartesian coordinate system, which laid the foundation for analytical geometry?

Rene Descartes

Pierre-Simon Laplace

John von Neumann

Karl Weierstrass

Which ancient civilization is credited with the earliest known use of geometry in practical applications such as land surveying?

Egyptian

Mesopotamian

Chinese

Indus Valley

In what century did the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta introduce the concept of zero as a number with its own symbol?

5th

7th

9th

11th

What is the famous theorem named after the Greek mathematician Pythagoras?

Pythagorean Theorem

Euclidean Theorem

Archimedean Theorem

Fibonacci Theorem

Who is known for the Fibonacci sequence, where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones?

Fibonacci

Euclid

Pythagoras

Archimedes

Which ancient civilization used a counting system based on the number 60?

Egyptian

Greek

Babylonian

Roman

The concept of "pi" to represent the ratio of circle's circumference to its diameter originated from which ancient culture?

Chinese

Egyptian

Greek

Roman

Who is often called the "Prince of Mathematicians" and made significant contributions to number theory?

Euclid

Euler

Gauss

Pythagoras

Which ancient mathematician is known for the discovery of the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under a curve?

Archimedes

Euclid

Pythagoras

Fibonacci

What is the name of the ancient Chinese mathematical text that introduced the concept of the Pythagorean Theorem independently?

Shulba Sutras

The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art

The Arithmetica

The Elements

Which Mathematician is often regarded as the "Father of Algebra"

Diophantus

Al-Khwarizmi

Fibonacci

Brahmagupta

What ancient civilization is credited with developing the concept of place value in numbers?

Greek

Roman

Babylonian

Egyptian

Who introduced the decimal system to the Western World?

Fibonacci

Al-Khwarizmi

Archimedes

Euclid

Which mathematicians is known for Fermat's Last Theorem and contributions to number theory?

Fermat

Euler

Gauss

Wiles

What ancient civilization is associated with the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, containing mathematical problems and solutions?

Greek

Egyptian

Roman

Babylonian

Who is known for the famous "Pascal's Triangle", a triangular array of binomial coefficients?

Blaise Pascal

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Rene Descartes

Leonhard Euler

Which mathematician made significant contributions to geometry and is often associated with Cartesian coordinates?

Euclid

Descartes

Newton

Kepler

The Golden Ratio, often denoted by the Greek letter (phi), is associated with which ancient mathematician's work?

Pythagoras

Euclid

Fibonacci

Archimedes

Who is known for the discovery of logarithms and the invention of logarithmic tables?

John Napier

Isaac Newton

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Leonhard Euler

Which mathematician is often credited with the development of the first formal system of mathematical logic?

Goerge Boole

Bertrand Russell

Kurt Godel

Alfred North Whitehead

Who is known for for the famous "Four Color Theorem", stating that any map can be colored using at most four colors?

Euler

Gauss

Descartes

Appel and Haken

Which mathematician is often referred to as the "Sultan of the Mathematical World" and made significant contributions to trigonometry?

Al-Khwarizmi

Ibn al-Haytham

Omar Khayyam

Al-Biruni

Who is known for the development of Boolean algebra, which laid the groundwork for computer science?

George Boole

Claude Shannon

Alan Turing

John von Neumann

Who is known for the concept of fractals and the Mandelbrot set?

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

Gaston Julia

Felix Haudorff

Sierpinski

Which ancient civilization used a sexagesimal (base-60) numeral system in their mathematical calculations?

Greek

Roman

Babylonian

Egyptian

Who is known for the Riemann Hypothesis, one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics?

Georg Cantor

Henri Poincare

Bernhard Riemann

Andrew Wiles

Which mathematician is often regarded as the "Father of Topology"?

Felix Klein

Henry Poincare

Georg Cantor

David Hilbert

Who is known for the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, one of the most famous problems in the history of mathematics?

Andrew Wiles

Pierre de Fermat

John Napier

Leonhard Euler

Which ancient mathematician is often called the "Father of Trigonometry" and made significant contributions to astronomy?

Hipparchus

Ptolemy

Aristarchu

Eratosthenes

What mathematical symbol did Robert Recorde introduce in the 16th Century?

Plus sign (+)

Minus sign (-)

Multiplication sign (x)

Equals sign (=)

Who formulated the famous theorem that states a2 + b2 = c2 for a right-angled triangle?

Pythagoras

Euclid

Archimedes

Leonardo Fibonacci

Which mathematician is known for the development of calculus along with Isaac Newton?

Blaise Pascal

Rene Descartes

John Napier

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Which ancient Greek mathematician is known for the discovery of the famous mathematical constant pi?

Euclid

Pythagoras

Archimedes

Thales

Which ancient Greek mathematician and inventor is credited with the invention of the first known steam engine?

Hero of Alexandria

Archimedes

Thales

Pythagoras

Which mathematician is known for his work on the theory of probability?

Blaise Pascal

Pierre-Simon LaPlace

Pierre de Fermat

Isaac Newton

In which century did the Hindu-Arabic numeral system replace Roman numerals in Europe?

14th Century

15th Century

18th Century

20th Century

What is the name of the Chinese mathematician who developed the Chinese Remainder Theorem?

Sun Tzu

Suan Chu

Jiuzhang Suanshu

Chou Pei Suan Ching

Who is known for the discovery of the laws of planetary motion?

Johannes Kepler

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Leonhard Euler

What is the name of the famous Indian Mathematician who made significant contributions to calculus?

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Ashutosh Mukherjee

Raj Chandra Bose

Phoolan Prasad

Who formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation?

Isaac Newton

Albert Einstein

Leonhard Euler

Blaise Pascal

Which mathematician is known for the famous series named after him, used to calculate the value of pi?

Leibniz

Archimedes

Pythagoras

Thales

Which famous female mathematician made significant contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical computer

Emmy Noether

Maryam Mirzakhani

Katherine Johnson

Sophie Germain

Which mathematician is often credited with the discovery of the irrationality of the square root of 2?

Pythagoras

Archimedes

Thales

Eula

Who is know for the famous "Binomial Theorem" in algebra?

Isaac Newton

Blaise Pascal

Albert Einstein

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Which ancient civilization is credited with the development of the first known numerical system?

Sumerians

Greeks

Romans

Chinese

In which century did the concept of infinity become a subject of mathematical study?

14th

15th

16th

17th

In which ancient civilization were the earliest known mathematical texts written on clay tablets?

Mesopotamia

Greeks

Romans

Chinese

In which century did the concept of imaginary numbers begin to be developed?

15th Century

16th Century

17th Century

18th Century

Who is known for the concept of limits and foundations of calculus?

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Blaise Pascal

Leonhard Euler

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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