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History of Trigonometry

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Trigonometry comes from two Greek Words: Trigonon which means triangle and _____ which means measurement?

a)

Metria

b)

Metron

c)

Metro

d)

Metran

2.

The Golden Age of Trigonometry was from 190 - 120 BCE by the Greeks. Who is one of the greatest contributors during that time? Clue: He is an astronomer, geographer and a mathematician. He constructed trigonometric tables and used these to reliably predict solar eclipses.

a)

Hipparcus of Nicea

b)

Ptolemy

c)

Aristotle

d)

Archimedes

3.

Who used the concept of Trigonometry to observe planetary motion?

a)

Ptolemy

b)

Aristotle

c)

Archimedes

d)

Hipparcus

4.

Who is an Indian Mathematician/Astronomer/Physicist who discovered Sine and Cosine?

a)

Amir Khan

b)

Aryabhata

c)

Muhammad Giddy

d)

Raju Arik

5.

He introduced the abbreviation of the six trigonometric ratios.

a)

William Oughtred

b)

Francois Viete

c)

Johann Muller

d)

Aryabhata

6.

Who wrote the first treatise on Trigonometry that was independent of the topic of astronomy?

a)

Georg Purbach

b)

Nasir Eddin

c)

Aryabhata

d)

Simon Stevins

7.

He is credited in many abbreviation in the fields of trigonometry, algebra and calculus, one of which is "i " used for complex numbers and "e" which is an irrational number equivalent to 2.7182.

a)

Abraham de Moivre

b)

Francois Viete

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Leonhard Euler

8.

He is one of the mathematicians who uses complex number in trigonometry.

a)

Gotfried Wilhelm Leibniz

b)

Bartholomeus Pitiscus

c)

Abraham de Moivre

d)

Leonhard Euler

9.

He wrote three books in trigonometry the Spherica which contains spherical triangle, spherical geometry and rule of the six quantities.

a)

Meneleus of Alexandria

b)

Archimedes

c)

Claude Ptolemy

d)

Hipparcus of Nicaea

10.

The word "jya" means _____.

a)

tangent

b)

sine

c)

chord

d)

cosine