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19TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who is widely regarded as one of the three greatest mathematicians of all times?

Jean-Robert Argand

Joseph Fourier

Évariste Galois

Carl Friedrich Gauss

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which mathematician proved that there is no general algebraic method for solving polynomial equations of any degree greater than four?

Évariste Galois

Joseph Fourier

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Jean-Robert Argand

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CCSS.HSA-REI.B.4B

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who is credited with the invention of symbolic algebra and the extension of the scope of algebra beyond the ordinary systems of numbers?

Charles Babbage

George Peacock

Bernhard Riemann

Georg Cantor

Tags

CCSS.6.EE.A.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who devised an algebra in which the only operators were AND, OR and NOT, and which could be applied to the solution of logical problems and mathematical functions?

George Boole

Bernhard Riemann

Charles Babbage

George Peacock

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who is best known for his 1858 discovery of the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface which has only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space?

August Ferdinand Möbius

Marius Sophus Lie

Felix Klein

Hermann Minkowski

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CCSS.1.G.A.1

CCSS.2.G.A.1

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who established the first foundations of set theory, which enabled the rigorous treatment of the notion of infinity?

John Venn

Richard Dedekind

Hermann Minkowski

Georg Cantor

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who developed a branch of number theory called the 'geometry of numbers' as a geometrical method in multi-dimensional space for solving number theory problems?

Henri Poincaré

Hermann Minkowski

Gottlob Frege

Arthur Cayley

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CCSS.HSN.CN.B.6

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