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MATH 101 History of Mathematics

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is believed to be the first mathematician?

a)

Archimedes

b)

Thales of Miletus

c)

Leonrdo DaVinci

d)

David Copperfield

2.

Who is in the picture?

a)

Vander Hoecke

b)

Johannes Widmann

c)

John Napier

d)

Rene Descartes

3.

In 300 B.C.E, who gained the title "Father of Geometry"?

a)

Blaise Pascal

b)

Joseph Louie Lagrange

c)

Euclid

d)

Leonhard Euler

4.

Who published the first paper calculus in 1684 C.E.?

a)

John Venn

b)

Carl Friedrich Gauss

c)

Gottfried Leibniz

d)

Benoit Mandelbrot

5.

What are the first 10 digit of Pi?

a)

3.141592653

b)

3.276351926

c)

3.141596283

d)

3.142573494

6.

Rene Descartes was a notable mathematicians in what century?

a)

18th Century

b)

14th Century

c)

17th Century

d)

19th Century

7.

Who developed the theory of probability?

a)

Napier&Descartes

b)

Archimedes&Euclid

c)

Pascal&Fermat

d)

Leibniz&Euler

8.

Which famous celebrity has a degree in math?

a)

Jay-Z

b)

Michael Jordan

c)

Kylie Jenner

d)

Justin Timberlake

9.

Who is the greatest mathematician in the ancient world?

a)

Euler

b)

Euclid

c)

Archimedes

d)

Pascal

10.

in ancient mathematics, Sumerians developed the earliest known writing system, what is this writing system?

a)

Sexagesimal

b)

Hieroglyphic

c)

Venn Diagram

d)

Pictographic

11.

In 1799, he proved the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.

a)

John Venn

b)

Benoit Mandelbrot

c)

Carl Friedrich Gauss

d)

Joseph Louie Lagrange

12.

What made Hippasus of Metapontum famous?

a)

Predicted the end of the world

b)

Discovered Pi

c)

Taught Brahmagupta

d)

Proved the irrationality of the square root of 2

13.

Who said “music is the pleasure of the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting”?

a)

Euclid

b)

Euler

c)

Leibniz

d)

Archimedes

14.

The ancient Babylonians had their number system based on?

a)

50

b)

59

c)

60

d)

61

15.

Who is the author of “Mecanique Analytique”?

a)

Joseph Lagrange

b)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

c)

Diophantus

d)

John Naisbitt

16.

Who is the author of “The Fractal Geometry of Nature” an important contribution to understanding form and complexity in the physical universe?

a)

Leonardo da Pisa

b)

Rene Descartes

c)

Joseph Liouville

d)

Benoit Mandelbrot

17.

Which mathematician wrote “Discourse of Method” in bed when he was hardly 16 years old and had studied mathematics for a few months only?

a)

Archimedes

b)

Euclid

c)

Rene Descartes

d)

Isaac Newton

18.

Who wrote “Liber Abaci” which introduced the Indian number system and zero to the Europe?

a)

G. W. Leibniz

b)

Leonardo da Pisa

c)

Benoit Mandelbrot

d)

Rene Descartes

19.

Who is the founder of modern theory of numbers?

a)

Pierre de Fermat

b)

Benoit Mandelbrot

c)

John Venn

d)

Isaac Newton

20.

Who is the most important mathematician in the 18th Century?

a)

Leonhard Euler

b)

Gottfried Leibniz

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Blaise Pascal

21.

Who is mathematician known for the x/y coordinate plane?

a)

Rene Descartes

b)

Pythagoras

c)

Stephen Hawkin

d)

Euclid

22.

Issac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz are credited with both working on what popular Advanced Placement math topic?

a)

Differential Geometry

b)

Economics

c)

Calculus

d)

Linear Algebra

23.

What historical figure is credited with the phrase "Eureka!"

a)

Newton

b)

Plato

c)

Galileo

d)

Archimedes

24.

Which Mathematician created a numerical pattern in the shape of a triangle?

a)

Pascal

b)

Gauss

c)

Euler

d)

Fermat

25.

Who is "the Father of Information Theory"?

a)

Shannon

b)

Euler

c)

Euclid

d)

Pascal

26.

Egyptians used lotus flowers to represent?

a)

50

b)

100

c)

750

d)

1000