Common Mathematicians - Math

He invented a method of determining the optimal values of a linear function subject to certain constraints. This method is known as linear programming. Who is he?

• George Dantzig

• George Canter

• Richard Dedekind

• Bertrand Russell

An 18th century mathematician who invented an analytical machine that can tabulate values of any function and print the results.

• Jean Fourier

• Charles Babbage

• Pierre Simon Laplace

• Jean-le-Rond D' Alembert

An 19th century Swiss Mathematician, he introduced the "Law of Large numbers" in his (The art of Conjecture). In statistics, this implies that the larger the sample, the more likely will the sample become representative of the population. Who was he?

• Gerolama Cardano

• Bertnard Ruseel

• Jacob Bernoulli

• Stephen Baldwin

Who published a treatise on trigonometry which contains the earliest use of our abbreviation: sin, tan, sec, for sine, tangent and secant?

• Gregorio de Saint

• John Napier

• Albert Gerard

• Johann Herdde

The greatest "could-have-been" in the history of mathematics and describes in his paper, Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle, an easy to understand table of "binomial coefficients."

• Blaise Pascal

• Gaspard Monge

• Bonaventura Cavalier

• Gregorio de Saint

He introduced the term pole in Projective Geometry and one of the proponents in the theory of the Polar Correspondence.

• Gergonne

• Klein

• Servois

• Wiles

Today the decibel is being used to measure sound volume in general. The original unit name decided upon was Bel, in honour of:

• Stephen Baldwin

• Daniel Bernoulli

• Jacob Bernoulli

• Alexander Graham Bell

The Richter scale is used to rate the magnitude of an earthquake, that is the amount of energy released during an earthquake. It was invented in 1935 by:

• Johann Bernoulli

• Charles Richter

• John Napier

• Alexander Graham Bell

German mathematician often cited as the "Father of Modern Analysis"

• Johann Bernoulli

• Gottfried Leibniz

• James Fermatt

• Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass

At the age of 7, he is reported to have amazed his teachers by summing the integers from 1 to 100 almost instantly having quickly spotted that the sum was actually 50 pairs of numbers, with each pair summing to 101, total 5,050. Who is he?

• Rene Descartes

• Gerolamo Cardano

• Luca Paciolli

• Carl Friedrich Gauss