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WorksheetsSLAC - QUIZIZZ 04/03/2024
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3mins
What set of positive integers satisfies the equation, a squared + b squared = c squared?
Trigonometric identities
Cartesian coordinates
Pythagorean triples
Fibonacci sequences
The numerals used by today's mathematicians were developed in ...
Rome
Arabia
France
Greece
Which ancient Egyptian unit of measurement was set as the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger?
cubit
stone
karat
quire
Who collaborated with Alfred North Whitehead in writing "Principia Mathematica" and later won the 1950 Nobel prize for literature?
Jean Wourier
Norbert Weiner
Leonhard Euler
Bertrand Russell
The distance from the North Pole to the equator was measured along an arc of a great circle, and this unit was repeatedly divided by ten until what convenient unit was determined?
(a)
The 360-degree circle and the 60-minute hour were developed by the ...
Greeks
Mayans
Egyptians
Babylonians
August F. Mobius was a founder of what branch of mathematics?
calculus
topology
probability
symbolic logic
I invented the first calculating machine in 1645. My gambling led me to study probability. I am french. Who am I?
Blaise Pascal
Pierre de Fermat
Stephen Wolfram
Descartes
Some consider me the first of the modern school of mathematics. I am famous for the statement : I think therefore I am.
Descartes
Stephen Wolfram
Pierre de Fermat
Blaise Pascal
What is the name for the study of triangles ?
(a)
