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WorksheetsCommon Mathematicians - Math
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
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?
George Dantzig
George Canter
Richard Dedekind
Bertrand Russell
An 18th century mathematician who invented an analytical machine that can tabulate values of any function and print the results.
Jean Fourier
Charles Babbage
Pierre Simon Laplace
Jean-le-Rond D' Alembert
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?
Gerolama Cardano
Bertnard Ruseel
Jacob Bernoulli
Stephen Baldwin
Who published a treatise on trigonometry which contains the earliest use of our abbreviation: sin, tan, sec, for sine, tangent and secant?
Gregorio de Saint
John Napier
Albert Gerard
Johann Herdde
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."
Blaise Pascal
Gaspard Monge
Bonaventura Cavalier
Gregorio de Saint
He introduced the term pole in Projective Geometry and one of the proponents in the theory of the Polar Correspondence.
Gergonne
Klein
Servois
Wiles
Today the decibel is being used to measure sound volume in general. The original unit name decided upon was Bel, in honour of:
Stephen Baldwin
Daniel Bernoulli
Jacob Bernoulli
Alexander Graham Bell
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:
Johann Bernoulli
Charles Richter
John Napier
Alexander Graham Bell
German mathematician often cited as the "Father of Modern Analysis"
Johann Bernoulli
Gottfried Leibniz
James Fermatt
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass
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?
Rene Descartes
Gerolamo Cardano
Luca Paciolli
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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.
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Nicolai Lobachevsky
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.
John Napier
Henry Briggs
George Boole
David Hilbert
He is the proponent of the common logarithms
John Napier
Henry Briggs
George Boole
David Hilbert
He proved the Fermat's last theorem.
Rene Descartes
Gerolamo Cardano
Andrew Wiles
Carl Friedrich Gauss
The first to show that ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas are obtained by cutting a cone in a plane not parallel to the base.
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Menaechmus
Archimedes
Apollonius of Perga
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"
Gustav Dirichlet
Hardy
Nicolai Lobachevsky
Euler
Who is known as the Father of Computing for his work on the Difference Engine?
Charles Babbage
Leonid Kantorovich
Alan Turing
Ada Lovelace
The equals sign was invented in 1558 by a Welsh mathematician named
Joseph Fourier
Christian Huygens
Abraham de Moivre
Robert Recorde
This mathematician is regarded as the "the revolutionary mathematician" of her times
Emmy Noether
Hypatia
Sophie Germain
Mary Boole
He acknowledged existence of imaginary numbers and wrote the Ars Magna
Niccolo Tartaglia
Gerolamo Cardano
Luca Pacioli
Rene Descartes
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?
Aristarchus of Samus
Columbus
Copernicus
Ptolemy
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.
Blaise Pascal
Pierre de Fermat
Rene Descartes
Ptolemy
Began the algebra of logic by approaching logic in a new way, reducing to a simple algebra and incorporating the logic into mathematics.
Carl Gauss
Evarista Galois
George Boole
Abraham De Moivre
He was the writer of set theory and was first to appreciate the value of one-to-one correspondence for set theory.
Augustine Cauchy
George Boole
Georg Philipp Cantor
Nikolai Lobachevsky
A rich mathematician in France who invented a new, non-Greek way of doing geometry, now called "projective" or "modern geometry"
Leonhard Euler
Francois Viete
Gerard Desargues
John Napier
He wrote the Triangulis Omnimodis, a scientific account of methods for solving triangles, and made important contributions to trigonometry & astronomy.
Regiomontanus
Gerolamo Cardano
Scipione del Ferro
Niccolo Tartaglia
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.
Johann Dirichlet
Karl Weierstrass
Evariste Galois
Johan Carl Gauss
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.
Augustin Cauchy
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Francois Viete
Nikolai Lobachevsky
A mathematician of the Medieval Ages who invented a type of coordinate geometry by finding the logical equivalences between tabulating values and graphing them
Nicole Oresme
Leonardo Fibonacci
Roger Bacon
Rene Descartes
A Greek mathematician who remembered for his prime number sieve
Anaxagoras
Eratosthenes
Pythagoras
Thales
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.
Jean Baptiste Fourier
Jean D' Alembert
Pierre Simon Laplace
Louis Lagrange
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."
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Blaise Pascal
Pierre de Fermat
Rene Descartes
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
Adrian Legendere
Joseph Fourier
Simeon Poisson
Pierre Laplace
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
Augustin Cauchy
Pafnuty Chebyshev
David Hilbert
Pierre Laplace
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.
Johann Bernoulli
Colin Maclaurin
Joseph Lagrange
Pierre Laplace
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
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Gottfried Leibniz
Christian Huygens
Rene Descartes
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.
Evariste Galois
Georg Cantor
Bernhard Riemann
Augustin Cauchy
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.
Evariste Galois
Georg Cantor
Bernhard Riemann
Christian Huygens
Italian mathematician during the renaissance period who was credited for solving one of the outstanding ancient problems of mathematics, cubic equations.
Gerolamo Cardano
Niccolo Tartaglia
Bernhard Riemann
Scipione del Ferro
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.
Gerolamo Cardano
Niccolo Tartaglia
Francois Viete
Nikolai Lobachevsky
