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18TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who were the dominant family of mathematicians in the 18th century?

a)

The Laplace family

b)

The Lagrange family

c)

The Euler family

d)

The Bernoulli family

2.

Where did Leonhard Euler spend most of his time during the 18th century?

a)

France

b)

Russia

c)

Germany

d)

Switzerland

3.

Which mathematician proposed the Goldbach Conjecture in a letter to Euler in 1742?

a)

Adrien-Marie Legendre

b)

Christian Goldbach

c)

Joseph Louis Lagrange

d)

Pierre-Simon Laplace

4.

Who is credited with originating the theory of groups, which became important in 19th and 20th Century mathematics?

a)

Johann Lambert

b)

Pierre-Simon Laplace

c)

Joseph Louis Lagrange

d)

Gaspard Monge

5.

Which French mathematician is sometimes referred to as 'the French Newton'?

a)

Gaspard Monge

b)

Adrien-Marie Legendre

c)

Pierre-Simon Laplace

d)

Joseph Louis Lagrange

6.

Who made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract algebra and mathematical analysis in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries?

a)

Pierre-Simon Laplace

b)

Gaspard Monge

c)

Adrien-Marie Legendre

d)

Joseph Louis Lagrange

7.

Who was the inventor of descriptive geometry, a method of representing three-dimensional objects by projections on the two-dimensional plane?

a)

Pierre-Simon Laplace

b)

Gaspard Monge

c)

Joseph Louis Lagrange

d)

Adrien-Marie Legendre

8.

Who provided a rigorous proof in 1761 that π is irrational?

a)

Joseph Louis Lagrange

b)

Pierre-Simon Laplace

c)

Adrien-Marie Legendre

d)

Johann Lambert

9.

Who introduced hyperbolic functions into trigonometry and made some prescient conjectures regarding non-Euclidean space and the properties of hyperbolic triangles?

a)

Johann Lambert

b)

Adrien-Marie Legendre

c)

Pierre-Simon Laplace

d)

Joseph Louis Lagrange

10.

Who proved that π is also transcendental, i.e. it cannot be the root of any polynomial equation with rational coefficients?

a)

Joseph Louis Lagrange

b)

Pierre-Simon Laplace

c)

Ferdinand von Lindemann

d)

Johann Lambert