WorksheetsHistory of Mathematics Day 1
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 4mins
The vigesimal system was not popular among American Indians but was used in Central America and by the Mayans. This system has what number as its base.
5
10
20
60
A lot of what we know about Ancient Egyptian mathematics comes from:
the pyramids
the Rhind Papyrus
the Rosetta Stone
Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles
The Babylonians are known for:
solving a quadratic equation
understanding and using the Pythagorean Theorem
approximating Pi as 3 and one-eighth
all of the above.
Followers of Pythagoras were stunned by the idea of incommensurability. Incommensurability means
the ratio of two non-zero real numbers, a and b, is not rational.
there are infinitely many real numbers.
rational numbers are defined as a over b, where a and b are integers.
none of the above.
Who wrote the book, Elements, which is the foundation for Geometry?
Pythagoras
Alexander the Great
Euclid
Archimedes
One of the first civilizations to use the abacus was:
the Greeks.
the Romans.
the Germans.
the Chinese.
Pascal's triangle, which is used to find the coefficients of the powers of a binomial expansion, was first seen in a work written by:
Pascal.
Hypatia.
Archimedes.
Zhu Shijie.
Al-Khwarizmi wrote a book that gave us:
algebra.
logarithms
calculus
geometry.
Charles Babbage was the first to work on the idea of a computer. His first one was called the Difference Engine and the second one was called the Analytical Engine. The first person to program these machines was:
Charles Babbage
Ada Byron Lovelace
Blaise Pascal
Isaac Newton
Both Newton and Leibniz are credited for the discovery of calculus, but we owe much of the notation that we use today to
Newton
Leibniz
Neither of them.
The Fields Medal is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics. It is awarded every 4 years to 2, 3, or 4 mathematicians under the age of 40. The first woman to receive the Fields Medal was Maryam Mirzakhani from Stanford University. What year did she receive this award?
1966
1994
2002
2014
Katherine Johnson, who was one of the female mathematicians featured in the movie Hidden Figures, recently celebrated which birthday?
85th
90th
95th
100th
John Urschel quit his career as an NFL football player to pursue a PhD in Applied Mathematics at MIT. Which NFL team did he play for?
Miami Dolphins
Baltimore Ravens
Green Bay Packers
New England Patriots
