Worksheets17th CENTURY MATHEMATICS
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who invented logarithms in the early 17th Century?
John Napier
Pierre de Fermat
Blaise Pascal
Isaac Newton
What is the base for natural logarithms?
π
e
10
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Which French mathematician is considered one of the founders of projective geometry?
Blaise Pascal
Pierre de Fermat
Girard Desargues
René Descartes
Who is credited with the first published work on probability theory?
Gottfried Leibniz
Isaac Newton
Marin Mersenne
Christiaan Huygens
Which mathematician is considered one of the greatest of all time, along with Archimedes and Gauss?
Pierre de Fermat
Blaise Pascal
Gottfried Leibniz
Isaac Newton
Who developed a geometrical approach to calculus known as Cavalieri’s principle?
Isaac Barrow
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Girard Desargues
John Wallis
Who made significant contributions towards the development of calculus and originated the idea of the number line?
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Isaac Barrow
Girard Desargues
John Wallis
Who completely revolutionized mathematics by the development of infinitesimal calculus?
Pierre de Fermat
Blaise Pascal
Isaac Newton
Gottfried Leibniz
Who is considered the first of the modern school of mathematics?
Blaise Pascal
René Descartes
Pierre de Fermat
Girard Desargues
Who is largely remembered in mathematics today in the term Mersenne primes?
Christiaan Huygens
Isaac Newton
Marin Mersenne
Gottfried Leibniz
