MATH HISTORY REVIEWER

What Civilization is credited with creating the first

known positional number system?

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Mathematician that formulated the "Law of Lever"?

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what was the primary focus of Greek mathematics during the hellenistic period?

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Invented a method of determining the optimal balues of a linear functions subject to certain contraints?

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An 18th century mathematician who invented an analytical machine that can tabulate values of any function and print the results.

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Introduce the law of large number

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Publish a treatise on trigonometry used for our abbreviations: sin, tan, sec,

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The greatest could - have been in history describe his paper treatise arithmetical triangle - binomial coefficients

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What famous mathematical problem involves finding a single number that is divisible by multiple given numbers?

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Which Greek mathematician studied conic sections and wrote *On the Sphere and Cylinder?

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