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Famous Mathematicians

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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?

a)

True

b)

False

2.

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.

a)

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

b)

René Descartes

c)

Carl Friedrich Gauss

d)

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

3.

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.

a)

François Viète

b)

Diophantus

c)

Fibonacci


d)

Carl Friedrich Gauss

4.

Was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for the number sequence named after him: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, …


a)

François Viète

b)

Leonhard Euler

c)

Leonardo Pisano, Fibonacci

d)

Johann Lambert

5.

Who is the founder is Venn diagram?

a)

John Venn

b)

Euclid

c)

Aryabhata

d)

Hypatia

6.

Was a Greek philosopher and mathematician. He is best known for proving Pythagoras’ Theorem, but made many other mathematical and scientific discoveries.


a)

Euclid

b)

Jhon Venn

c)

Pythagoras

d)

Carl Friedrich Gauss

7.
Who is known as the "Father of Geometry"?
a)
Pythagoras
b)
Archimedes
c)
Euclid
d)
Galileo
8.

He was pioneering mathematician and physicist, famous for developing the ‘Fourier Series’.

a)

Joseph Fourier

b)

Pierre de Fermat

c)

Henri Poincare

d)

George Cantor

9.

He is known for his invention of the mechanical calculator and the development of Pascal's Triangle.

a)

Blaise Pascal

b)

Benjamin Bannaker

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Rene Descartes

10.

Who discovered gravity ?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Thomas Elva Edison

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Charles Darwin

11.

Who is this mathematician

a)

Archimedes

b)

Logan Paul

c)

Galileo

d)

Aristotle

12.

Who was the Ancient Mathematician of Alexandria that was a neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician?

a)

Emmy Noether

b)

Sofia Kovalevskaya

c)

Sophie Germain

d)

Hypatia

13.

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?

a)

Annie Easley

b)

Valerie Thomas

c)

Mae Carol Jemison

d)

Katherine Johnson

14.

Who was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and one of the pioneers of elasticity theory and chaos theory?

a)

Sophia Kovelaskaya

b)

Audrey Maclean

c)

Hypatia of Alexandria

d)

Sophia Germain

15.

Da Vinci proved that bodies can measure and match with his image of what man?

a)

Michelangelo

b)

Vitruvian man

c)

da Vinci

d)

Mr. President