WorksheetsMath Trivia
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 5mins
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?
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Leonhard Euler
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Amalie Emmy Noether
Is 36 a perfect number?
Yes, it is!
No, it's not!
What's the most famous and prestigious prize a mathematician can get?
The Abel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Mathematics
The Kenneth O. May Medal
The Fields Medal
What are the first terms of the famous Fibonacci Sequence?
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ...
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 22, ...
0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 6, 8, 13, ...
1, 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 13, 21, ...
What base did the Babylonian number system use?
Base 10
Base 6
Base 60
Base 12
Which mathematician published more total pages of mathematics during his lifetime than any other mathematician in history?
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Leonhard Euler
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Amalie Emmy Noether
What's the name of the famous problem Euler solved that involved crossing bridges?
Königsberg Bridge Problem
Paris Bridge Problem
Venice's Bridge Problem
Basel Bridge Problem
Which Indian astronomer is known for discovering (or inventing) the number zero around 600 B.C?
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Brahmagupta
Bhāskara
Aryabhata
What does Fermat’s Last Theorem say?
Every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes.
The Zeta function has its zeros only at the negative even integers and complex numbers with real part 12.
No three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation
an+bn=cn for any integer value of n greater than 2.if p is a prime number, then for any integer a, the number ap−a is an integer multiple of p.
How was the first, and only, Brazilian mathematician to win a Fields Medal?
Artur Avila
Jacob Palis
Marcelo Viana
Fernando Codá
Kurt Gödel is famous for proving the incompleteness of mathematics. How did he die (I'm not really this morbid, I swear)?
Died in his sleep
Starved to death
Killed during a robbery
Heart attack
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"?
Maryam Mirzakhani
Ada Lovelace
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Amalie Emmy Noether
What is an Erdős number?
It's one of a sequence of numbers created by the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős.
It's a mathematical constant, represented by the letter E, that is approximately equal to 2.71828.
It's a constant defined as the sum of the reciprocals of the Mersenne numbers. It's named after Paul Erdős.
The Erdős number describes the collaborative distance between mathematician Paul Erdős and another person
