Department of Mathematics - Quiz Competition 2023

Who is known as the "Father of Geometry" and authored "Elements"?

• Euclid

• Pythagoras

• Rene Descartes

• Archimedes

• Isaac Newton

• Richard Feynman

• Albert Einstein

• Niels Bohr

Name the mathematician who proved Fermat's Last Theorem after it remained unsolved for centuries.

• Andrew Wiles

• Pierre de Fermat

• Terence Tao

• John Stillwell

Name the mathematician who independently developed calculus alongside Isaac Newton.

• Leonhard Euler

• Pythagoras

• Bernhard Riemann

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Who is the only woman in history to win the Fields Medal?

• Ada Lovelace

• Julia Robinson

• Maryam Mirzakhani

• Marjorie Lee Browne

Which film is based on the famous mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan's life?

• X+Y

• A Beautiful Mind

• The Man who knew Infinity

• Gifted

In which year was Srinivasa Ramanujan born?

• 1897

• 1887

• 1977

• 1899

British mathematician who played a key role in recognizing Ramanujan's talent and bringing him to Cambridge?

• Pierre de Fermat

• George Boole

• James Bernaulli

• G H Hardy

What disease did Ramanujan suffer from, which caused his health to decline rapidly?

• Diabetes

• Tuberculosis

• Cancer

• Malaria

Which number is known as Ramanujan Number?

• 1719

• 1729

• 1713

• 1739