WorksheetsMATH 101 History of Mathematics
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
Who is believed to be the first mathematician?
Archimedes
Thales of Miletus
Leonrdo DaVinci
David Copperfield
Who is in the picture?
Vander Hoecke
Johannes Widmann
John Napier
Rene Descartes
In 300 B.C.E, who gained the title "Father of Geometry"?
Blaise Pascal
Joseph Louie Lagrange
Euclid
Leonhard Euler
Who published the first paper calculus in 1684 C.E.?
John Venn
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gottfried Leibniz
Benoit Mandelbrot
What are the first 10 digit of Pi?
3.141592653
3.276351926
3.141596283
3.142573494
Rene Descartes was a notable mathematicians in what century?
18th Century
14th Century
17th Century
19th Century
Who developed the theory of probability?
Napier&Descartes
Archimedes&Euclid
Pascal&Fermat
Leibniz&Euler
Which famous celebrity has a degree in math?
Jay-Z
Michael Jordan
Kylie Jenner
Justin Timberlake
Who is the greatest mathematician in the ancient world?
Euler
Euclid
Archimedes
Pascal
in ancient mathematics, Sumerians developed the earliest known writing system, what is this writing system?
Sexagesimal
Hieroglyphic
Venn Diagram
Pictographic
In 1799, he proved the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.
John Venn
Benoit Mandelbrot
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Joseph Louie Lagrange
What made Hippasus of Metapontum famous?
Predicted the end of the world
Discovered Pi
Taught Brahmagupta
Proved the irrationality of the square root of 2
Who said “music is the pleasure of the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting”?
Euclid
Euler
Leibniz
Archimedes
The ancient Babylonians had their number system based on?
50
59
60
61
Who is the author of “Mecanique Analytique”?
Joseph Lagrange
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Diophantus
John Naisbitt
Who is the author of “The Fractal Geometry of Nature” an important contribution to understanding form and complexity in the physical universe?
Leonardo da Pisa
Rene Descartes
Joseph Liouville
Benoit Mandelbrot
Which mathematician wrote “Discourse of Method” in bed when he was hardly 16 years old and had studied mathematics for a few months only?
Archimedes
Euclid
Rene Descartes
Isaac Newton
Who wrote “Liber Abaci” which introduced the Indian number system and zero to the Europe?
G. W. Leibniz
Leonardo da Pisa
Benoit Mandelbrot
Rene Descartes
Who is the founder of modern theory of numbers?
Pierre de Fermat
Benoit Mandelbrot
John Venn
Isaac Newton
Who is the most important mathematician in the 18th Century?
Leonhard Euler
Gottfried Leibniz
Isaac Newton
Blaise Pascal
Who is mathematician known for the x/y coordinate plane?
Rene Descartes
Pythagoras
Stephen Hawkin
Euclid
Issac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz are credited with both working on what popular Advanced Placement math topic?
Differential Geometry
Economics
Calculus
Linear Algebra
What historical figure is credited with the phrase "Eureka!"
Newton
Plato
Galileo
Archimedes
Which Mathematician created a numerical pattern in the shape of a triangle?
Pascal
Gauss
Euler
Fermat
Who is "the Father of Information Theory"?
Shannon
Euler
Euclid
Pascal
Egyptians used lotus flowers to represent?
50
100
750
1000
