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WorksheetsFINAL EXAM IN HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS
Total questions: 80
Worksheet time: 38mins
Where were some of the earliest signs of the beginning of mathematics seen?
America
Europe
Egypt
China
The Eye of Horus had a hint of?
Arithmetic Series
Geometric Series
Harmonic Series
The ancient Babylonians had their number system based on?
10
30
60
40
Which image below shows Babylonian Clay Tablet?
What is this number? (Babylonian numeral system)
16
32
61
111
What is this number? (Babylonian numeral system)
25
82
32
141
Sumerian writing
Cuneiform
Scribes
Hieroglyphics
Phoenician alphabet
Convert these Egyptian hieroglyphs into modern day numbers
267
287
237
337
Egyptian writing?
Cuneiform
Scribe
Hieroglyphics
Phoenician alphabet
It is one of the books authored by Diophantus.
The elements
Arithmetica
Almagest
Palimpsest
How many problems can we see from the books of Diophantus?
151
168
189
205
It is a mathematical proposition that refers to a direct consequence of a proof.
Corollary
Conjecture
Porism
Reduction Ad Absurdum
One of the Diophantus' main contribution was the "syncopation" of algebra means. Syncopation algebra means
The use of algebraic notation
Stenographic abbreviations
Symbolic Algebra
All of the above
The Greek word dumamis means
Power
Add
Subtract
Multiply
It is known as the largest city in the Hellenistic world.
Djibouti
Syracuse
Niger
Morocco
What religion flourished during the twilight of Greek Mathematics?
Hindu
Buddhism
Christianity
Islam
Which story is known as a sad record of short-sighted exploitation?
Story of Athens
Story of Roman Egypt
Story of Greece
Story of Mesopotamia
Who first used negative numbers around 2200 years ago or maybe even earlier?
Egyptian
Hindu
Chinese
Islam
The ancient Babylonians had their number system based on?
50
60
80
100
What was the beginning of math (Mathematics)
The Big Bang
Einstein created
With sticks on walls
Someone was counting with rocks
Who Invented "ZERO"
Europeans
Greeks
Indians
Russians
The Number 1729 is related to a Great Indian Mathematician...
Bhaskara
Varahamihira
Aryabhatta
Srinivasa Ramanujan
What is the title of the first known math textbook?
Rhind Papyrus
Rosetta Stone
Euclid's Elements
Shulba Sutras
In which ancient civilization, odd and even numbers were divided into two sets, the odd ones denoted as males and the even females?
Egyptian
Babylonian
Greece
Chinese
What is the difference between Euclidean geometry and Non-Euclidean geometry?
Euclid's 5th Postulate
Euclid's Elements
The coordinate plane
Euclid's 2nd Postulate
Was a French mathematician, lawyer, and advisor to Kings Henry III and IV of France. He made significant advances in Algebra, and first introduced the use of letters to represent variables.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 – 1813)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519)
Fibonacci (1175 – 1250)
François Viète (1540 – 1603)
Was a Greek mathematician and is often called the father of geometry. He book The Elements first introduced Euclidean geometry, defines its five axioms, and contains many important proofs in geometry and number theory – including that there are infinitely many prime numbers.
Arhimede (c. 287 - 212 î.Hr.)
Euclid of Alexandria (around 300 BCE)
Aristotle (c. 384 – 322 BCE)
Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 – 495 BCE)
He discovered many concepts of calculus and worked in geometry, analysis and mechanics.
While taking a bath, discovered a way to determine the volume of irregular objects using the amount of water they displaced when submerged. He was so excited by this discovery that he ran out on the street, still undressed, yelling “Eureka!” (Greek for “I have found it!”).
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276 – 195 BCE)
Fibonacci (1175 – 1250)
Archimedes (c. 287 – 212 BCE)
Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)
Was an English physicist, mathematician, and astronomer, and one of the most influential scientists of all time. Was one of the inventors of calculus, built the first reflecting telescope, calculated the speed of sound, studied the motion of fluids, and developed a theory of colour based on how prisms split sunlight into a rainbow-coloured spectrum.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716)
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 – 1813)
Joseph Fourier (1768 – 1830)
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1726)
was a French mathematician and philosopher, and one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution. He is credited with the first use of superscripts for powers or exponents, and the cartesian coordinate system is named after him.
René Descartes (1596 – 1650)
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 – 1855)
Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789 – 1857)
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 – 1813)
Was arguably the greatest mathematician in history. According to legend, he corrected a mistake in his father‘s accounting at the age of 3, and found a way to quickly add up all integers from 1 to 100 at the age of 8.
François Viète (1540 – 1603)
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 – 1855)
Fibonacci (1175 – 1250)
Diophantus
Was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for the number sequence named after him: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, …
Leonardo Pisano, Fibonacci (1175 – 1250)
Leonhard Euler (1707 – 1783)
Johann Lambert (1728 – 1777)
François Viète (1540 – 1603)
Was a Greek philosopher and mathematician. He is best known for proving Pythagoras’ Theorem, but made many other mathematical and scientific discoveries.
Thales of Miletus (c. 624 – 546 BCE)
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276 – 195 BCE)
Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 – 495 BCE)
Heron of Alexandria (c. 10 – 70 CE)
Invented much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, and made important discoveries in calculus, analysis, graph theory, physics, astronomy, and many other topics.
Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)
Leonhard Euler (1707 – 1783)
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
Arthur Cayley (1821 – 1895)
Who is the author of 'Elements' which is often referred as the greatest work of Greek Mathematics?
Euler
Pythagoras
Euclid
Pascal
It is a base-20 form of writing numbers.
Decimal
Sexagesimal
Vigesimal
It is a mathematical proposition that refers to a direct consequence of a proof.
Corollary
Conjecture
Porism
Reduction Ad Absurdum
Who is the father of mathematics?
Archimedes
Rene Descartes
Albert Einstein
Pythagoras
Father of Geometry.
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Euclid
Rene Descartes
In mathematics, it is a triangular array of the binomial coefficients and named after Blaise Pascal.
Blaise Pascal
Archimedes
Pythagoras
Euclid
Father of Algebra.
Blaise Pascal
Al-Khwarizmi
Pythagoras
Euclid
It is a property of equality which states that "If x=y and y=z, then x=z ".
Reflexive
Symmetric
Transitive
Associative
It is a property of equality which states that "If x=y , then y=x. "
Reflexive
Symmetric
Transitive
Associative
It is a declarative sentence which is true or false but not both.
argument
fallacy
proposition
tautology
It is a proposition which is composed of simple statements that can be decided whether true or false.
argument
fallacy
logical equivalence
simple proposition
It is a proposition which is composed of sub-statements and various logical connectives.
compound proposition
proposition
simple proposition
truth value
Followers of Pythagoras were stunned by the idea of incommensurability. Incommensurability means
the ratio of two non-zero real numbers, a and b, is not rational.
there are infinitely many real numbers.
rational numbers are defined as a over b, where a and b are integers.
none of the above.
Pascal's triangle, which is used to find the coefficients of the powers of a binomial expansion, was first seen in a work written by:
Pascal.
Hypatia.
Archimedes.
Zhu Shijie.
Charles Babbage was the first to work on the idea of a computer. His first one was called the Difference Engine and the second one was called the Analytical Engine. The first person to program these machines was:
Charles Babbage
Ada Byron Lovelace
Blaise Pascal
Isaac Newton
The Fields Medal is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics. It is awarded every 4 years to 2, 3, or 4 mathematicians under the age of 40. The first woman to receive the Fields Medal was Maryam Mirzakhani from Stanford University. What year did she receive this award?
1966
1994
2002
2014
'La Géométrie' appendix to ground-breaking philosophical and mathematical treatise 'Discours de la méthode'(the 'Discourse on Method') is related to
George Peacock
René Descartes
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Galileo Galilei
Who referred Mathematics as the 'Queen of Sciences'?
Alan Turing
Carl Friedrich Gauss
David Hilbert
Bernhard Riemann
The conceptual leap of using the Triangle to the solve problems in probability theory was by
Pythagoras
Pascal
Euclid
Euler
Who is known as the 'Prince of Mathematicians'?
George Cantor
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Johannes Kepler
David Hilbert
Jacob Bernoulli is the author of the book
Elements
Principia
The Art of Conjecture
Practica Geometriae
The beginning of an axiomatic approach to geometry can be attributed to which of the following mathematicians?
David Hilbert
Hippocrates
Thales
Plato
Elliptic geometry, a type of non-Euclidean geometry was developed by
George Cantor
Johannes Kepler
Bernhard Riemann
Thomas Bayes
Who said this line, " Not everything that can be counted count, and not everything that counts can be counted" ?
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
Pythagoras
2,054 in Roman numeral is written as.....
MMCIV
MMLIV
MMDIV
A square array of numbers, usually positive integers, which sums of the numbers in each row, each column, and both main diagonals are the same.
Magic Square
Special Square
Unique Square
It is a base-20 form of writing numbers.
Decimal
Sexagesimal
Vigesimal
Who was one of the world's first female mathematicians?
Euclid
Hypatia
Aristotle
Hippocrates
Archimedes
In the Babylonian notation the following principles were employed EXCEPT
Additive
Multiplicative
Associative
This theorem states that "if a triangle is drawn within a circle with the long side as a diameter of the circle, then the opposite angle will always be a right angle."
Pythagorean Theorem
Thales Theorem
Isosceles-Right Triangle Theorem
Similarity Theorem
He was Plato’s student credited with the first implementation of the “method of exhaustion” (later developed by Archimedes), an early method of integration by successive approximations which he used for the calculation of the volume of the pyramid and cone.
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Alexander the Great
Pythagoras
Aristotle
13. It was defined by Chinese in ancient times as the "art of calculation".
Mayan Mathematics
Chinese Mathematics
Roman Mathematics
Medieval Mathematics
12. How many days are in divine calendar?
260
360
365
390
14. He produced a calendar which was based on a cycle of 19 years.
Liu Zhuo
Luoxia Hong
Zu chongzki
None of the choices
17. Why did the Hindu civilization have an advantage over the Greek civilizations understanding of mathematics?
They were the first civilization to invent "Phat Stacks"
They really liked Pi
They regarded irrational roots of numbers as numbers
They predicted the birth of Chuch Norris by using astrology
40. He eventually came to understand cubic and quartic equations much better than Tartaglia.
Lodovico Ferrari
Gerolamo Cardano
Luca Picioli
Niccolo Tartaglia
39. In the egyptians mathematics, the figure of a god with arms raised above his head in decimal system is equivalent to ____.
100
1,000,000
1,000
1
What are the first 10 digit of Pi?
3.141592653
3.276351926
3.141596283
3.142573494
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
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 "the Father of Information Theory"?
Shannon
Euler
Euclid
Pascal
Egyptians used lotus flowers to represent?
50
100
750
1000
