Mathematicians

Which mathematician created three laws of motion and made major contributions to calculus?

• Pascal

• Fermat

• Euler

• Newton

Which mathematician made contributions in the theory of numbers, continued fractions, infinite series, and partition function, even though he had no formal training?

• Ramanujan

• Gauss

• Kepler

• Germain

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Which mathematician was the first to assign e, i, and Σ as parts of algorithms or equations?

• Euclid

• Pythagoras

• Euler

• Lovelace

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Which mathematician developed infinitesimal calculus and redefined the binary number system to enable to development of digital computers?

• Hilbert

• Leibniz

• Turing

• Laplace

Which mathematician invented the mechanical calculator, clarified the concepts of vacuum and pressure, and invented the hydraulic press and roulette wheel?

• Euler

• Laplace

• Pascal

• Babbage

Which mathematician developed laws of planetary motion and invented a better version of the refracting telescope?

• Lagrange

• Johnson

• Gauss

• Kepler

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Which mathematician developed elementary mathematics, was the first to formalize mathematical proofs, and has a branch of geometry named for him?

• Euclid

• Euler

• Archimedes

• Gauss

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Who developed the normal distribution, or bell curve, in addition to creating the first electromagnetic telegraph?

• Turing

• Kepler

• Gauss

• Bayes

Which mathematician did work in number theory and elasticity, but was often denied credit for work due to gender?

• Germain

• Turing

• Johnson

• Fermat

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Which mathematician explored many fundamental ideas of calculus, made important contributions to analytical geometry, probability, number theory and calculus, and whose famous theorem states that no three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation aⁿ + bⁿ = cⁿ for any integer value of n greater than 2?

• Turing

• Gauss

• Leibniz

• Fermat

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