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Common Mathematicians - Math

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

He invented a method of determining the optimal values of a linear function subject to certain constraints. This method is known as linear programming. Who is he?

a)

George Dantzig

b)

George Canter

c)

Richard Dedekind

d)

Bertrand Russell

2.

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

a)

Jean Fourier

b)

Charles Babbage

c)

Pierre Simon Laplace

d)

Jean-le-Rond D' Alembert

3.

An 19th century Swiss Mathematician, he introduced the "Law of Large numbers" in his (The art of Conjecture). In statistics, this implies that the larger the sample, the more likely will the sample become representative of the population. Who was he?

a)

Gerolama Cardano

b)

Bertnard Ruseel

c)

Jacob Bernoulli

d)

Stephen Baldwin

4.

Who published a treatise on trigonometry which contains the earliest use of our abbreviation: sin, tan, sec, for sine, tangent and secant?

a)

Gregorio de Saint

b)

John Napier

c)

Albert Gerard

d)

Johann Herdde

5.

The greatest "could-have-been" in the history of mathematics and describes in his paper, Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle, an easy to understand table of "binomial coefficients."

a)

Blaise Pascal

b)

Gaspard Monge

c)

Bonaventura Cavalier

d)

Gregorio de Saint

6.

He introduced the term pole in Projective Geometry and one of the proponents in the theory of the Polar Correspondence.

a)

Gergonne

b)

Klein

c)

Servois

d)

Wiles

7.

Today the decibel is being used to measure sound volume in general. The original unit name decided upon was Bel, in honour of:

a)

Stephen Baldwin

b)

Daniel Bernoulli

c)

Jacob Bernoulli

d)

Alexander Graham Bell

8.

The Richter scale is used to rate the magnitude of an earthquake, that is the amount of energy released during an earthquake. It was invented in 1935 by:

a)

Johann Bernoulli

b)

Charles Richter

c)

John Napier

d)

Alexander Graham Bell

9.

German mathematician often cited as the "Father of Modern Analysis"

a)

Johann Bernoulli

b)

Gottfried Leibniz

c)

James Fermatt

d)

Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass

10.

At the age of 7, he is reported to have amazed his teachers by summing the integers from 1 to 100 almost instantly having quickly spotted that the sum was actually 50 pairs of numbers, with each pair summing to 101, total 5,050. Who is he?

a)

Rene Descartes

b)

Gerolamo Cardano

c)

Luca Paciolli

d)

Carl Friedrich Gauss

11.

He is a famous Italian Astronomer in the 17th century together with Johan Kepler, who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method.

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

Giovanni Domenico Cassini

d)

Nicolai Lobachevsky

12.

He is the 17th century mathematician who invented logarithms, popularized the use of decimals and introduced a multiplication tool using a set of numbered rods.

a)

John Napier

b)

Henry Briggs

c)

George Boole

d)

David Hilbert

13.

He is the proponent of the common logarithms

a)

John Napier

b)

Henry Briggs

c)

George Boole

d)

David Hilbert

14.

He proved the Fermat's last theorem.

a)

Rene Descartes

b)

Gerolamo Cardano

c)

Andrew Wiles

d)

Carl Friedrich Gauss

15.

The first to show that ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas are obtained by cutting a cone in a plane not parallel to the base.

a)

Eudoxus of Cnidus

b)

Menaechmus

c)

Archimedes

d)

Apollonius of Perga

16.

Defined a function as a relation between two variables x and y such that "to some value of x at any rate correspond values of y"

a)

Gustav Dirichlet

b)

Hardy

c)

Nicolai Lobachevsky

d)

Euler

17.

Who is known as the Father of Computing for his work on the Difference Engine?

a)

Charles Babbage

b)

Leonid Kantorovich

c)

Alan Turing

d)

Ada Lovelace

18.

The equals sign was invented in 1558 by a Welsh mathematician named

a)

Joseph Fourier

b)

Christian Huygens

c)

Abraham de Moivre

d)

Robert Recorde

19.

This mathematician is regarded as the "the revolutionary mathematician" of her times

a)

Emmy Noether

b)

Hypatia

c)

Sophie Germain

d)

Mary Boole

20.

He acknowledged existence of imaginary numbers and wrote the Ars Magna

a)

Niccolo Tartaglia

b)

Gerolamo Cardano

c)

Luca Pacioli

d)

Rene Descartes

21.

He was a Renaissance and Reformation-era mathematician and astronomer who formulate a model of the universe that place the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe?

a)

Aristarchus of Samus

b)

Columbus

c)

Copernicus

d)

Ptolemy

22.

17th century French mathematician, philosopher, and scientist who was honored by having the Cartesian coordinate system. His rule of signs is also a commonly used method in modern mathematics.

a)

Blaise Pascal

b)

Pierre de Fermat

c)

Rene Descartes

d)

Ptolemy

23.

Began the algebra of logic by approaching logic in a new way, reducing to a simple algebra and incorporating the logic into mathematics.

a)

Carl Gauss

b)

Evarista Galois

c)

George Boole

d)

Abraham De Moivre

24.

He was the writer of set theory and was first to appreciate the value of one-to-one correspondence for set theory.

a)

Augustine Cauchy

b)

George Boole

c)

Georg Philipp Cantor

d)

Nikolai Lobachevsky

25.

A rich mathematician in France who invented a new, non-Greek way of doing geometry, now called "projective" or "modern geometry"

a)

Leonhard Euler

b)

Francois Viete

c)

Gerard Desargues

d)

John Napier

26.

He wrote the Triangulis Omnimodis, a scientific account of methods for solving triangles, and made important contributions to trigonometry & astronomy.

a)

Regiomontanus

b)

Gerolamo Cardano

c)

Scipione del Ferro

d)

Niccolo Tartaglia

27.

Known as father of modern analysis during 19th century who also devised tests for the convergence of series and contributed to the theory of periodic functions, Abelian functions, elliptic functions, etc.

a)

Johann Dirichlet

b)

Karl Weierstrass

c)

Evariste Galois

d)

Johan Carl Gauss

28.

A "grand" Russian mathematician who gave the basis for applying the theory of probability to statistical data, worked on number of prime numbers not exceeding a given number, and proved Bertrand's conjecture in 1850.

a)

Augustin Cauchy

b)

Pafnuty Chebyshev

c)

Francois Viete

d)

Nikolai Lobachevsky

29.

A mathematician of the Medieval Ages who invented a type of coordinate geometry by finding the logical equivalences between tabulating values and graphing them

a)

Nicole Oresme

b)

Leonardo Fibonacci

c)

Roger Bacon

d)

Rene Descartes

30.

A Greek mathematician who remembered for his prime number sieve

a)

Anaxagoras

b)

Eratosthenes

c)

Pythagoras

d)

Thales

31.

An 18th century mathematician enunciated the principles of the Calculus of variations and became a lecturer in the Royal Artillery School at the age of 19.

a)

Jean Baptiste Fourier

b)

Jean D' Alembert

c)

Pierre Simon Laplace

d)

Louis Lagrange

32.

An Italian mathematician best known today by his principle "the volumes of two objects are equal if the areas of their corresponding cross-sections are in all cases equal."

a)

Bonaventura Cavalieri

b)

Blaise Pascal

c)

Pierre de Fermat

d)

Rene Descartes

33.

An 18th century mathematician whose name is attached to a wide variety of ideas such as integral, equation in potential theory, brackets in differential equations, ratio in elasticity, and constant in electricity

a)

Adrian Legendere

b)

Joseph Fourier

c)

Simeon Poisson

d)

Pierre Laplace

34.

He proved his famous Basis Theorem as he worked on invariant theory and challenged mathematicians to solve fundamental questions that led to his famous speech The Problems of Mathematics

a)

Augustin Cauchy

b)

Pafnuty Chebyshev

c)

David Hilbert

d)

Pierre Laplace

35.

He did notable work in geometry, particularly studying higher plane curves. He also considered the geometric problem of finding the difference between the volume of the frustum of a solid of revolution and the volume of the cylinder of the same height.

a)

Johann Bernoulli

b)

Colin Maclaurin

c)

Joseph Lagrange

d)

Pierre Laplace

36.

He was considered a universal genius by his contemporaries whose work encompasses not only mathematics and philosophy by also theology, law, diplomacy, politics, and physics. He also developed the basic notations of his version of the calculus and perfected the binary system of arithmetic

a)

Bonaventura Cavalieri

b)

Gottfried Leibniz

c)

Christian Huygens

d)

Rene Descartes

37.

He achieved real fame when he submitted a paper to the institute solving one of Fermat's claims on polygonal numbers made to Mersenne. He also wrote the memoir on definite integrals that later became the basis of his theory of complex functions.

a)

Evariste Galois

b)

Georg Cantor

c)

Bernhard Riemann

d)

Augustin Cauchy

38.

A 17th century mathematician who solved the problem on how to hang weights on the rope so that it hung in a parabolic shape and showed the fallacy in methods of squaring a circle.

a)

Evariste Galois

b)

Georg Cantor

c)

Bernhard Riemann

d)

Christian Huygens

39.

Italian mathematician during the renaissance period who was credited for solving one of the outstanding ancient problems of mathematics, cubic equations.

a)

Gerolamo Cardano

b)

Niccolo Tartaglia

c)

Bernhard Riemann

d)

Scipione del Ferro

40.

A Russian mathematician in the 19th century who would instead develop geometry without Euclid's fifth postulate and whose achievement exhibits the development of non-Euclidian geometry.

a)

Gerolamo Cardano

b)

Niccolo Tartaglia

c)

Francois Viete

d)

Nikolai Lobachevsky