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17th CENTURY MATHEMATICS

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who invented logarithms in the early 17th Century?

a)

John Napier

b)

Pierre de Fermat

c)

Blaise Pascal

d)

Isaac Newton

2.

What is the base for natural logarithms?

a)

π

b)

e

c)

10

d)

2

3.

Which French mathematician is considered one of the founders of projective geometry?

a)

Blaise Pascal

b)

Pierre de Fermat

c)

Girard Desargues

d)

René Descartes

4.

Who is credited with the first published work on probability theory?

a)

Gottfried Leibniz

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

Marin Mersenne

d)

Christiaan Huygens

5.

Which mathematician is considered one of the greatest of all time, along with Archimedes and Gauss?

a)

Pierre de Fermat

b)

Blaise Pascal

c)

Gottfried Leibniz

d)

Isaac Newton

6.

Who developed a geometrical approach to calculus known as Cavalieri’s principle?

a)

Isaac Barrow

b)

Bonaventura Cavalieri

c)

Girard Desargues

d)

John Wallis

7.

Who made significant contributions towards the development of calculus and originated the idea of the number line?

a)

Bonaventura Cavalieri

b)

Isaac Barrow

c)

Girard Desargues

d)

John Wallis

8.

Who completely revolutionized mathematics by the development of infinitesimal calculus?

a)

Pierre de Fermat

b)

Blaise Pascal

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Gottfried Leibniz

9.

Who is considered the first of the modern school of mathematics?

a)

Blaise Pascal

b)

René Descartes

c)

Pierre de Fermat

d)

Girard Desargues

10.

Who is largely remembered in mathematics today in the term Mersenne primes?

a)

Christiaan Huygens

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

Marin Mersenne

d)

Gottfried Leibniz