Mathematicians

Who developed the foundations of differential and integral calculus?

• Johann Kepler

• Gottfried Von Leibniz

• Isaac Newton

• Blaise Pascal

Who developed the first detailed table of trigonometry ratios known as the table of chords?

• Hipparchus of Nicaea

• John Napier

• Johann Herdde

• Leonardo of Pisa

What is an integer called when a logarithm is expressed as an integer plus a decimal?

• Hyperbola

• Character

• Mantissa

• Maxima

Who published the treatise on trigonometry containing the earliest use of sin, tan, sec, sine, tangent, and secant?

• Gregorio de Saint

• Carl Friedrich Gauss

• Albert Gerard

• Alexander Graham Bell

Who stated that 'Mathematics is the queen of science and number theory'?

• Carl Friedrich Gauss

• Gottfried Von Leibniz

• Blaise Pascal

• George Dantzig

Who invented a method of determining the optimal values of a linear function subject to certain constraints known as linear programming?

• George Dantzig

• Johann Kepler

• Gregorio de Saint

• Alexander Graham Bell

Who developed the basic feature of his version of calculus and perfected the binary system of arithmetic?

• John Napier

• Hipparchus of Nicaea

• Isaac Newton

• Gottfried Von Leibniz

Who discovered the special sequence called the Fibonacci sequence?

• Johann Herdde

• Blaise Pascal

• Leonardo of Pisa

• Albert Gerard

Who has been described as the greatest 'might have been' in the history of mathematics?

• Blaise Pascal

• George Dantzig

• Johann Kepler

• Alexander Graham Bell

Who contributed notably to mathematics in the early part of the seventeenth century as an outstanding German astronomer?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Johann Kepler

• George Dantzig

• Albert Gerard