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WorksheetsLET Review - Majorship (History of Mathematics)
Total questions: 66
Worksheet time: 33mins
Who is the Father of Algebra?
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Who is the Islamic Father of Algebra?
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Who is the Father of Logic?
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Who is the Father of Statistics?
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Who is the Father of Geometry?
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Who is the Father of Analytic Geometry?
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Who is the Father of Trigonometry?
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Who is the Father of Modern Analysis?
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Who is the Father of Problem Solving?
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He is known as the Father of Numbers and for his discovery of Pythagorean Theorem.
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He is considered as the First True Mathematician, and Founder of Abstract Geometry.
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Who is the first woman Mathematician?
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Who is known as Blind Mathematician?
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Who is considered as the King of Mathematics?
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Who is known as the Beethoven of Mathematics?
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Who is known as the Princeps Mathematicorum or Prince of Mathematics?
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He is known as the Greatest Might-Have-Been in the History of Mathematics.
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Who wrote the Almagest, and believed that the earth is the center of the universe.
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In his work Trigonometrie, he was the first user of the abbreviations; sin, cos, and tan.
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He is known as the Greek Geometer, and for his work The Conics.
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He published the greatest work Ars Magna; the methods of solution for the cubic and quartic equation.
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Who is the author of the book Arithmetica?
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He is known for his treatise on Mathematics, The Elements.
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They used the sexagesimal number system or a based sixty system.
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They used the vigesimal number system or a based twenty system using only three symbols: shell-like, dot, and line.
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Who are known as the first discoverer of zero?
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He proposed the Set Theory as a separate mathematical discipline.
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He gave the first mathematical treatment of close packing of equal spheres, which led to an explanation of shapes of the cells of a honeycomb.
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Who developed the methods of indivisibles?
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Who is the Italian Scholar that introduced the fibonacci sequence?
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He invented the Pascal's Triangle?
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Who invented the logarithm?
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Who invented the Rectangular Coordinate Plane?
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He is an 18th Century Swiss Mathematician who introduced the Law of Large Numbers in his The Art of Conjecture. In Statistics, this implies that the larger the sample, the more likely will the sample become representative of the population.
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He invented the method of determining the optimal values of a linear function subject to certain constraints. This method is known as Linear Programming.
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Who is the founder of the statistical techniques; correlation and linear regression?
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He is the first to introduced the radical sign.
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Who is the first to define the probability as quotient of all favorable outcomes?
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He is best remembered for his search for the formula in generating prime numbers.
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Who identified the prime numbers using the formula; 2n - 1 and called as Mersenne Prime.
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A rich mathematician in France who invented a new and non-greek way of doing geometry, now called as Projective or Modern Geometry.
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A Grand Russian Mathematician who gave the basis for applying the theory of probability to a statistical data, worked the number of prime numbers not exceeding a given number, and proved Bertrand's Conjecture in 1980.
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Who introduced the term Transversal?
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He is known for a calculus rule named after him, and for finding the limit of a rational function, whose numerator and denominator tend to zero at a point.
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The quote logarithmic plots are device of the devil is attributed to him, who is the most famous as the creator of the magnitude scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified the size of earthquakes.
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Who invented the protractor?
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Who invented the first pendulum clock?
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He invented the first mechanical adding machine in 1642.
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His greatest contributions include such groundbreaking texts in invention of dividing rods used as multiplication table.
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He is the first to calculate the value of Pi.
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Who proved the famous formula eiπ + 1 = 0.
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He claimed that xn + yn = zn has no positive integer solutions if n is greater than 2.
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The decibel 1/10 of this original unit. It was defined as the ratio of power levels of 10 to 1 (ten times the power of one-tenth the power). Who originally invented the decibel unit?
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Who calculated the Earth's Circumference and Earth's Axis Tilt?
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A 19th Century Mathematician who added the integers from 1 to 100 within seconds by a flash of mathematical insights.
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Who believed that All is Number?
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Who quoted Mathematics is the Queen of Sciences, and Number Theory is the Queen of Mathematics.
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Who is the Father of Computer?
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Who is the Father of Modern Computer and Science?
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Who is considered as the first computer programmer?
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Who invented the first mobile phone?
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Who is the Father of Physics?
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He is the Father of Thermodynamics.
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He was a Renaissance and Reformation Era Mathematician and Astronomer, who formulated the Model of the Universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the Universe.
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There were Two Outstanding Astronomers who contributed notably to Mathematics in the early part of 17th Century: The German Johann Kepler and the Italian (a) ?
Modern Physics owes its beginning to him: who was the first astronomer to use a telescope.
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