Pi Day William Jones

What symbol did William Jones use to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter?

• θ

• σ

• ρ

• π

In which year did William Jones become a Fellow of the Royal Society?

• 1731

• 1749

• 1702

• 1711

Where was William Jones born?

• Llanfihangel Tre'r Beirdd, Isle of Anglesey

• London, England

• Llanfechell, Isle of Anglesey

• Benllech, Isle of Anglesey

Who were the main patrons of William Jones?

• The Earl of Macclesfield

• The Bulkeley family of north Wales

• Sir Edmund Halley

• Sir Isaac Newton

What was the title of the work where Jones first used π for the ratio of circumference to diameter?

• Analysis per quantitatum series, fluxiones ac differentias

• Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos

• A New Compendium of the Whole Art of Navigation

• Principia Mathematica

What did William Jones publish in 1702?

• A book on differential calculus

• A New Compendium of the Whole Art of Navigation

• A collection of Isaac Newton's manuscripts

• A paper on infinite series

Who were two of Britain's foremost mathematicians that noticed and befriended William Jones?

• Leonhard Euler and Carl Friedrich Gauss

• Edmund Halley and Sir Isaac Newton

• René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

• Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat

What did William Jones' son, also named William Jones, establish links between?

• Astronomy and navigation

• Different calculus methods

• Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit

• Mathematics and physics

How did William Jones contribute to navigation?

• By discovering a new continent

• By applying mathematics to navigation

• By inventing a new type of compass

• By creating the first accurate map of the world

What was William Jones' profession after his voyages?

• A ship captain

• A librarian

• A government official

• A mathematics teacher