Historical Math

Who is this?

• Hypatia
• Ada Lovelace
• Sophie Germain
• Emmy Noether

What mathematical tool did Blaise Pascal invent in 1642?

• Slide Rule
• Protractor
• Compass
• Mechanical Calculator

Who was known for cracking German ciphers in WWII?

• Alan Turing
• Adolf Hitler
• Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Albert Einstien

Who is known as the "Father of Geometry"?

• Pythagoras
• Archimedes
• Euclid
• Galileo

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He is known for the saying, "Give me a place to stand, and I will move the universe."

• Donald Trump

• Theon

• Thales

• Archimedes

Invented a branch of mathematics known as "game theory."

• Leibniz

• Pascal

• von Neumann

• Levi Strauss

Discovered non-Euclidean geometry.

• Gauss

• Heissenberg

• Frizell

• Presley

First to use ZERO as a number.

• Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi
• Euclid
• Diophantus
• Brahmagupta

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Father of algebra. He studied at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.

• Fibonacci
• Diophantus
• Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi
• Pythagoras

Father of modern philosophy. He developed the grid.

• Leonard Euler
• Alan Turing
• Gottfried Leibniz
• Rene Descartes

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