Quiz 1_History of Mathematics

With a Greek philosopher and mathematicians. He is best known for proving Pythagoras Theorem, but made many other mathematical and scientific discoveries.

• Pythagoras of Samoc

• Thales of Miletus

• Heron of Alexandria

• Eratosthenes of Cyrene

Was an Italian Mathematician. He is best known for the number sequence named after him: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13...

• Francois

• Euler

• Johann Lambert

• Fibonacci

Was arguably the greatest mathematician in history. According to legend, he corrected a mistake in his father's accounting at the age of 3, and found a way to quickly add up all integers from 1 to 100 at the age of 8.

• Carl Friedrich Gauss

• Diophantus

• Francois

• Fibonacci

Was a French mathematician and philosopher, and one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution. He is credited with the first use of superscripts for powers or exponents, and the cartesian coordinate system is named after him.

• Augustin-Louis Cauchy

• Carl Friedrich Gauss

• Rene Descartes

• Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Was an English physicist, mathematician, and astronomer, and one of the most influential scientist of all time. Was one of the inventors of calculus, built the first reflecting telescope, calculated the speed of sound, the motion of fluids, and developed the theory of colour based on how prism split sunlight into a rainbow coloured spectrum.

• Joseph-Louis Lagrange

• Joseph Fourier

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

He is known for his invention of the mechanical calculator.

• Rene Descartes

• Blaise Pascal

• Benjamin Bannaker

• Isaac Newton

Development of infinitesimal calculus (Differential and Integral). Laid ground work for almost all of classical, mechanics, generalized binomial theorem, infinite power series.

• Jacob Bermouli

• Abraham de Moivre

• Albert Einstein

• Isaac Newton

He was pioneering mathematician and physicist, famous for developing the "Fourier Series."

• George Cantor

• Henri Pioncare

• Pierre de Fermat

• Joseph Fourier

"The Father of Geometry"

• Euclid

• Diaphantus

• Newton

Who is known for creating the electric bulb?

• Thomas Edison

• Benjamin Franklin

• Isaan Newton