Worksheets18TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who were the dominant family of mathematicians in the 18th century?
The Laplace family
The Lagrange family
The Euler family
The Bernoulli family
Where did Leonhard Euler spend most of his time during the 18th century?
France
Russia
Germany
Switzerland
Which mathematician proposed the Goldbach Conjecture in a letter to Euler in 1742?
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Christian Goldbach
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Who is credited with originating the theory of groups, which became important in 19th and 20th Century mathematics?
Johann Lambert
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Gaspard Monge
Which French mathematician is sometimes referred to as 'the French Newton'?
Gaspard Monge
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Who made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract algebra and mathematical analysis in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries?
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Gaspard Monge
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Who was the inventor of descriptive geometry, a method of representing three-dimensional objects by projections on the two-dimensional plane?
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Gaspard Monge
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Who provided a rigorous proof in 1761 that π is irrational?
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Johann Lambert
Who introduced hyperbolic functions into trigonometry and made some prescient conjectures regarding non-Euclidean space and the properties of hyperbolic triangles?
Johann Lambert
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Who proved that π is also transcendental, i.e. it cannot be the root of any polynomial equation with rational coefficients?
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Ferdinand von Lindemann
Johann Lambert
