Family Fun Quiz 10 - Famous Mathematicians

This female mathematician contributed to the advance of the global environmental movement.

Her first name starts with the 18^th letter of the alphabet.

Who is she?

• Ada Lovelace

• Florence Nightingale

• Rachel Carson

• Marie Curie

Pythagoras is referred to as the first pure mathematician.

He was born in 569 BC (Before Christ).

Tick all the CORRECT statements about the number 569.

• It is an odd number.

• It is a 3-digit number.

• 3 is a factor of this number.

• It is 431 less than 1000.

The first female computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, was born in a year which is an odd number,

a multiple of 5 and the digit total is 15.

When was Ada Lovelace born?

• 1915

• 1882

• 1815

• 1923

Euclid is called, The Father of Geometry.

He wrote a book, The Elements, which was the most comprehensive book on Geometry for about 2000 years.

2000 years is the same as 2 millennia.

True or False?

• True

• False

With her work in statistics, Florence Nightingale, discovered that during the Crimean War, around 16,000 out of 18,000 soldiers died because of diseases caused by lack of sanitation.

What fraction of the soldiers died because of diseases caused by lack of sanitation?

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Pascal’s Triangle is a triangular number pattern named after the French mathematician

Blaise Pascal.

This pattern is used to work out a number of combinations.

Look at the Pascal's Triangle.

Which number pattern will appear in the 7^th row?

• 1, 6, 15, 20, 15, 6, 1

• 6, 15, 20, 15, 6

• 1, 6, 15, 20, 15, 6

• 6, 15, 20, 15, 6, 1

Maria Mitchell was an American mathematician who discovered the orbit of a new comet in 1847.

In which century did Mitchel discover this orbit?

• 21^st century

• 20^th century

• 19^th century

• 18^th century

Archimedes discovered the number Pi.

Legend says that the Greek Mathematician made his discovery while taking a bath and ran through the streets shouting "Eureka", meaning I found it in Greek.

Look at the number Pi. Write this number up to 2 decimal places.

Marjorie Lee Browne was one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics.

She died at the age of 65, in 1979.

In which year was she born?

• 1924

• 1914

• 1916

• 1926

The equal (=) sign was invented by the eldest mathematician from the 4 below.

Who invented the equal (=) sign?

• Isaac Newton, born in 1642.

• John Milnor, born in 1931.

• Stephen Smale born in 1930.

• Robert Recorde born in 1512.