WorksheetsFamous Mathematicians
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 21mins
Euclid is called, The Father of Geometry.
He wrote a book, The Elements, which was the most comprehensive book on Geometry for about 2000 years.
2000 years is the same as 2 millennia.
True or False?
True
False
was a French mathematician and philosopher, and one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution. He is credited with the first use of superscripts for powers or exponents, and the cartesian coordinate system is named after him.
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
René Descartes
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Was arguably the greatest mathematician in history. According to legend, he corrected a mistake in his father‘s accounting at the age of 3, and found a way to quickly add up all integers from 1 to 100 at the age of 8.
François Viète
Diophantus
Fibonacci
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for the number sequence named after him: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, …
François Viète
Leonhard Euler
Leonardo Pisano, Fibonacci
Johann Lambert
Who is the founder is Venn diagram?
John Venn
Euclid
Aryabhata
Hypatia
Was a Greek philosopher and mathematician. He is best known for proving Pythagoras’ Theorem, but made many other mathematical and scientific discoveries.
Euclid
Jhon Venn
Pythagoras
Carl Friedrich Gauss
He was pioneering mathematician and physicist, famous for developing the ‘Fourier Series’.
Joseph Fourier
Pierre de Fermat
Henri Poincare
George Cantor
He is known for his invention of the mechanical calculator and the development of Pascal's Triangle.
Blaise Pascal
Benjamin Bannaker
Isaac Newton
Rene Descartes
Who discovered gravity ?
Albert Einstein
Thomas Elva Edison
Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin
Who is this mathematician
Archimedes
Logan Paul
Galileo
Aristotle
Who was the Ancient Mathematician of Alexandria that was a neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician?
Emmy Noether
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sophie Germain
Hypatia
Who, during their 35-year career at NASA , held a reputation for being a master of complex manual calculations, helped pioneer the use of computer programming for performing complex calculations and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Annie Easley
Valerie Thomas
Mae Carol Jemison
Katherine Johnson
Who was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and one of the pioneers of elasticity theory and chaos theory?
Sophia Kovelaskaya
Audrey Maclean
Hypatia of Alexandria
Sophia Germain
Da Vinci proved that bodies can measure and match with his image of what man?
Michelangelo
Vitruvian man
da Vinci
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