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

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

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