History of Math

The numerals used by today's mathematicians were developed in

• Rome

• Arabia

• France

• Greece

• England

What set of positive integers satisfies the equation, a squared + b squared = c squared?

• trigonometric identities

• Cartesian coordinates

• Pythagorean triples

• Fibonacci sequences

• ordered pairs

Which ancient Egyptian unit of measurement was set as the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger?

• cubit

• stone

• karat

• quire

• parsec

Which ancient Egyptian unit of measurement was set as the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger?

• cubit

• stone

• karat

• quire

• parsec

Who deduced the heights of the pyramids from the lengths of their shadows and measured the distance to a ship from shore by the method of similar triangles?

• Plato

• Galen

• Thales

• Pericles

• Euripides

Who collaborated with Alfred North Whitehead in writing "Principia Mathematica" and later won the 1950 Nobel prize for literature?

• M.C. Esher

• Jean Wourier

• Norbert Weiner

• Leonhard Euler

• Bertrand Russell

Who was a mathematician and writer?

• Pat Carroll

• Lewis Carroll

• Leo G. Carroll

• Diahann Carroll

• Madeline Carroll

What concept was developed by ancient Hindu mathematicians?

• zero

• conic section

• decimal point

• 360-degree circle

• Pythagorean theorem

Ancient Greeks said a natural number is perfect if the sum of all its divisors except itself equals the number. Which number is perfect?

• 4

• 9

• 16

• 20

• 28

Who invented the syllogism as the keystone of his system of deductive logic?

• Ptolemy

• Aristotle

• George Boole

• Sir Francis Bacon

• Nikolai Lobachevski