Math History

What mathematician is known for the x/y coordinate plane?

• Rene Descartes
• Pythagoras
• Stephen Hawking
• Euclid

Issac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz are credited with both working on what popular Advanced Placement math topic?

• Calculus
• Differential Geometry
• Linear Algebra
• Economics

who was the father of mathematics and music?

• Pythagoras

• Einstein

• Edison

How many zeroes are in a googol?

• 10

• 100

• 1000

• 10,000

Who is the father of Geometry?

• Euclid

• Pythagoras

• Descartes

• Leibniz

Which Mathematician created a numerical pattern in the shape of a triangle?

• Pascal

• Euler

• Fermat

• Gauss

Who is quoted as saying "Do not worry too much about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater.

• Fibonacci

• Einstein

• Descartes

• Pythagorus

Which mathematician of the Middle Age discovered the mathematical sequence in nature?

• Descartez

• Braumagupta

• Fibonacci

• Ramanujan

Which woman mathematician was denied warm clothes and fire to prevent her from studying by her parents?

• Sophia Kovelaskaya

• Audrey Maclean

• Hypatia of Alexandria

• Sophia Germain

Which mathematicians work for NASA checking their math calculations for space flights in the 1960's?

• Annie Easily

• Audrey Maclean

• Sophia Germain

• Katherine Johnson