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Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 9mins
Taj Mahal located in ___ is 73 Meters in height
Greece
China
India
Pakistan
Who is the Father of Mathematics?
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Euclid
Plato
Googol is 1 with 100 zeros, it was used in ___
1935
1940
1934
1937
Who invented Algebra?
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
René Descartes
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
The mathematician Pythagoras was born around 569 BC. Where did Pythagoras live?
Greece
Samos
Cyrene
Alexandria
Eratosthenes of ___ was a Greek mathematician who worked on prime numbers and geometry.
Pisa
Alexandria
Cyrene
Syracuse
This is the smallest perfect number
(a)
He is best known for the widely used formula known as the Pythagorean Theorem.
Pythagoream
Pythagoras
Euclid
Blaise Pascal
Which famous mathematician was born in Sicily around 287 BC?
Archimedes
Hypatia
Al-Khwarizmi
Eratosthenes
__ is known for Fibonacci Numbers
Leonardo Fibonacci
Albert Einstein
Leonardo da Vinci
Archimedes
Isaac Newton discovered the laws of physics and brought together many important concepts of infinitesimal __.
Algebra
Trigonometry
Science
Calculus
Fibonacci introduced the number sequence to Western Europe in his book ‘__’ after they had been described earlier by Indian mathematicians.
Fibonacci Numbers
Liber Abaci
Fibonacci Sequence
Abaci
Greek mathematician Euclid is often referred to as the ‘Father of __’ for his revolutionary ideas and influential textbook called ‘Elements’ that he wrote around the year 300 BC.
Mathematics
Algebra
Geometry
Science
Born in France, Pierre de Fermat was an amateur mathematician who is best known for __ Last Theorem.
Pierre de Fermat's
Fermat’s
Pierre's
The
In __, French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical calculator.
1642
1640
1641
1645
Born in 1953, British mathematician __ is most famous for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem.
Alan Turing
George Boole
Andrew Wiles
Arthur Cayley
Galileo Galilei was a famous mathematician and astronomer. Where was he born?
Pisa
Cyrene
Switzerland
Alexandria
Descartes, the philosopher, scientist and mathematician, is known for his work on analytic geometry. What was his nationality?
British
German
Greek
French
What was the nationality of the eighteenth century mathematician Leonhard Euler?
German
Swiss
French
British
The __ sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, ....
Arithmetic
Fibonacci
Geometric
Einstein
In the 17th century Galileo Galilei and Johannes __ made important discoveries relating to planetary motion and orbits.
Kepler
Gutenberg
Brahms
John
Archimedes of __ lived around the year 250 BC and among other things, developed a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
Syracuse
Cyrene
Alexandria
Pisa
__ theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a² + b² = c²
Trigonometry
Pythagorean
Einstein
Pythagoran
Described by Einstein as the most important woman in the history of mathematics.
Emmy Noether
Hypatia of Alexandria
Sophie Germain
Ada Lovelace
Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today’s measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.__).
.14
.15
.20
.16
The equals sign (=) was invented in 1557 by a Welsh mathematician named .
Thomas Harriot
William Oughtred
Albert Einstein
Robert Recorde
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is located in __
China
Pisa
France
India
Burj Khalifa is located in __
Pakistan
India
Dubai
Malaysia
Pantheon is located in __
China
Rome
Greece
Belgium
Parthenon is located in __
Egypt
Greece
London
Rome
Who were the first to use negative numbers?
Indian
British
Chinese
Italian
Arithmetica is a series of books by __
Pierre de Fermat
Euclid
Albert Einstein
Diophantus
Who invented the Infinity Symbol?
John Wallis
Johann Heinrich Rahn
Descartes
Isaac Newton
Among the many mathematical problems Plato posed for his students’ investigation were the so-called __ Classical Problems
Five
Four
Three
Ten
__ most famous work is the Republic, which details a wise society run by a philosopher.
Euclid's
Einstein's
Thale's
Plato's
Pythagoras of __ was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.
Cyrene
Samos
Pisa
Alexandria
Euclid, sometimes called Euclid of __ to distinguish him from Euclid of Megara, was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "founder of geometry" or the "father of geometry".
Alexandria
Megara
Cyrene
India
Eratosthenes may have been the first to use the word __.
Trigonometry
Mathematics
Geography
Science
The radical symbol first appeared in 1525 in Die Coss by __
Christoff Rudolff
Albert Einstein
Leonardo da Vinci
Isaac Newton
__ thus proposed that things change from one form to another.
Plato
Thales
Descartes
Newton
The abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool which has been used since ancient times. Where is it from?
India
China
Russia
Europe
The first computer that resembled the modern machines we see today was invented by Charles Babbage between 1833 and __.
1871
1870
1873
1869
Leonhard Euler is well known for his contributions to mathematical vocabulary and notation. In particular, he is considered the founder of function __.
geometry
mathematics
vocabulary
notation
A __ has twelve pentagonal sides
Dodecahedron
Pentagon
Octahedron
Square
Pi was invented by?
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Albert Einstein
William Jones
Blaise Pascal
What is a curved line that is a part of the circumference of a circle?
Tangent
Arc
Point
Radius
What is the sum of the first 200 counting numbers?
20100
5100
20050
5050
What is another term for the hashtag sign or the no. sign (#)?
Asterisk
Interrogation Mark
Vinculum
Octothorpe
Who stated that any floating object displaces its own weight of fluid?
Archimedes
Euclid
Newton
Einstein
The + and - symbols first appeared in print in a book called ___ by ___
Elements by Euclid
Mercantile by Johannes Widmann
Liber Abaci by Fibonacci
The Republic by Plato
