HISTORY FINAL QUIZ

Who is reputed to have invented the common logarithm?

• John Napier

• Henry Briggs

• James Gregory

• Phillip de Lahire

He is known to be 'the greatest might have been'.

• Pierre de Fermat

• Blaise Pascal

• Jan de Witt

• John Wallis

In 1635, a French mathematician made the first sketch of half of an arch of a sine curve. Who is he?

• Gilles Persone De Roberval

• F.J. Servois

• Pierre Simon Laplace

• Gaspard Monge

Who proposed the idea that planes move in elliptical orbits around the sun?

• Galileo Galilei

• Albert Einstein

• Claudius Ptolemy

• Johannes Kepler

A 17th century contemporary of Kepler who is also an astronomer.

• Galileo Galilei

• Albert Einstein

• Claudius Ptolemy

• Wilhelm Leibniz

The inventor of pendulum clock is _.

• Euler

• Christian Huygens

• Joseph Louis Lagrange

• Carl Friedrich Gauss

The inventor of Descriptive Geometry is _.

• Joseph Louis Lagrange

• Pierre Simon Laplace

• Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier

• Gaspard Monge

Who discovered the fundamental principle of analytic geometry independent of Rene Descartes?

• Girard Desargues

• Rene Descartes

• Pierre de Fermat

• Christian Huygens

He is a Greek mathematician known to be the 'Father of Modern Analysis'?

• Charles Babbage

• Blaise Pascal

• Karl Weierstrass

• David Hilbert

Who coined the term logic of chance?

• Karl Pearson

• John Venn

• Christian Huygens

• Jacob Bernoulli