MCQ History of Mathematics Quiz

Carl Friedrich Gauss is known as the "Prince of Mathematician". He is famous for his book entitled?

• Arithmetica

• Disquisitiones Arithmeticae

• The Almagest

• Ars Magna

A study of hundreds of American Indian tribes showed that 10% of the tribes used a number system. The number system uses what as the base number?

• 10 Ancient Egypt

• 20

• 30

• 60 Sexagesimal

According to Herodotus, from where did geometry originate?

• Egypt

• America

• India

• Mesopotamia

In ancient Egyptian number system, a lotus is used to represent what number?

• 1

• 10

• 100

• 1,000

Summeria are known for which writing system?

• Cuneiform

• Hieroglyphics Ancient Egypt

• Phoenician Greeks

• Hangul Koreans

Who is known as the "pupil of Chaldeans and Egyptians" and proposed the theorem that an angle inscribed in a semicircle is a right angle?

• Pappus of Alexandria

• Herodotus

• Thales of Miletus

• Democritus of Abdera

According to Pythagoras, Mathematics means

• Love of Wisdom

• All is number

• That which is learned

• Over the door of the unknown

The construction of the regular solids and the theory of proportional is attributed to which mathematician?

• Anaxagoras

• Pythagoras

• Protagoras

• Eudoxus

Who is the mathematician likened to Moises who came within sight of the promise land but could not enter it?

• Johannes Kepler

• Blaise Pascal

• Galileo Galilei

• Omar Khayam

Method of Exhaustion finds the area of a shape by inscribing polygons inside of it, with an increasing number of sides. Who is reported to have invented this method?

• Archytas

• Aristotle

• Eudemus

• Eudoxus