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Math Trivia

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What's the name of the mathematician who created a formula for the sum of consecutive integers (arithmetic sequence) when solving a challenge in elementary school?

a)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

b)

Leonhard Euler

c)

Carl Friedrich Gauss

d)

Amalie Emmy Noether

2.

Is 36 a perfect number?

a)

Yes, it is!

b)

No, it's not!

3.

What's the most famous and prestigious prize a mathematician can get?

a)

The Abel Prize

b)

The Nobel Prize in Mathematics

c)

The Kenneth O. May Medal

d)

The Fields Medal

4.

What are the first terms of the famous Fibonacci Sequence?

a)

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ...

b)

1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 22, ...

c)

0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 6, 8, 13, ...

d)

1, 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 13, 21, ...

5.

What base did the Babylonian number system use?

a)

Base 10

b)

Base 6

c)

Base 60

d)

Base 12

6.

Which mathematician published more total pages of mathematics during his lifetime than any other mathematician in history?

a)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

b)

Leonhard Euler

c)

Carl Friedrich Gauss

d)

Amalie Emmy Noether

7.

What's the name of the famous problem Euler solved that involved crossing bridges?

a)

Königsberg Bridge Problem

b)

Paris Bridge Problem

c)

Venice's Bridge Problem

d)

Basel Bridge Problem

8.

Which Indian astronomer is known for discovering (or inventing) the number zero around 600 B.C?

a)

Srinivasa Ramanujan

b)

Brahmagupta

c)

Bhāskara

d)

Aryabhata

9.

What does Fermat’s Last Theorem say?

a)

Every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes.

b)

The Zeta function has its zeros only at the negative even integers and complex numbers with real part 12.

c)

No three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation

an+bn=cna^n+b^n=c^n for any integer value of n greater than 2.

d)

if p is a prime number, then for any integer a, the number ap−aa^p-a is an integer multiple of p.

10.

How was the first, and only, Brazilian mathematician to win a Fields Medal?

a)

Artur Avila

b)

Jacob Palis

c)

Marcelo Viana

d)

Fernando Codá

11.

Kurt Gödel is famous for proving the incompleteness of mathematics. How did he die (I'm not really this morbid, I swear)?

a)

Died in his sleep

b)

Starved to death

c)

Killed during a robbery

d)

Heart attack

12.

Who is the mathematician that made great contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics, but is known because she was described by Einstein as the "most important woman in the history of mathematics"?

a)

Maryam Mirzakhani

b)

Ada Lovelace

c)

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

d)

Amalie Emmy Noether

13.

What is an Erdős number?

a)

It's one of a sequence of numbers created by the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős.

b)

It's a mathematical constant, represented by the letter E, that is approximately equal to 2.71828.

c)

It's a constant defined as the sum of the reciprocals of the Mersenne numbers. It's named after Paul Erdős.

d)

The Erdős number describes the collaborative distance between mathematician Paul Erdős and another person