MATH HISTORY

Who published a treatise on trigonometry which contains the earliest use of the abbreviations: sin, tan, sec for sine, tangent and secant?

• Albert Girard

• Blaise Pascal

• Girolamo Cardano

• Galileo Galilei

He has been described as the greatest "might-have-been" in history of mathematics. Who has he?

• Galileo Galilei

• Albert Girard

• Blaise Pascal

• Girolamo Cardano

A 16th Century Mathematician, who was first to define the probability of an event as the quotient of all favorable outcome over the total number of outcomes?

• Galileo

• Albert Girard

• Blaise Pascal

• Girolamo Cardano

There were two outstanding astronomers who contributed notably to mathematics in the early part of seventeenth century: The German Johann Kepter and the Italian

• Blaise Pascals

• Galileo Galilei

• Girolamo Cardano

• Alfred Tennison

Sound intensity which is measured using decibel scale also uses common logarithm. Decibel is name after whom?

• Blaise Pascals

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Girolamo Cardano

• Alfred Tennison

He invented a method of determining the optimal values of a linear function subject to certain constraints. This method is known as linear programming. Who is he?

• George Dantzig

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Girolamo Cardano

• Alfred Tennison

He invented a method of determining the optimal values of a linear function subject to certain constraints. This method is known as linear programming. Who is he?An 18th Century Swiss Mathematician, he introduced the "Law of Large Numbers" in his (The Art of Conjecture). In statistics, this implies that the larger the sample, the more likely will the sample become representative of the population. Who was he?

• George Dantzig

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Girolamo Cardano

• Jacob Bernoulli

His greatest contributions includes such groundbreaking texts in invention of dividing roots used as multiplication table.

• George Dantzig

• Alexander Graham Bell

• John Napier

• Jacob Bernoulli

A rich Mathematician in France who invented a new, non-Greek way of doing geometry, now called "projective" or "modern" geometry. Girard Desargues

• George Dantzig

• Girard Desargues

• John Napier

• Jacob Bernoulli

He was a Renaissance - and Reformation - era Mathematician and astronomer, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of Universe.

• George Dantzig

• Copernicus

• John Napier

• Jacob Bernoulli