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WorksheetsMath History 100
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 40mins
This is a wedge-shaped system of writing used by the Sumerians or Babylonians.
Hieroglyphics
Cuneiform
Papyrus
Oracle Bone Script
The earliest system of writing developed by the Sumerians.
Sulva Sutras
Hieroglyphic
Cuneiform Script
Oracle Bone Script
It is also known as the base 60 numeric system.
Binary
Sexagesimal
Hindu-Arabic
Vigesimal
It is where the early Egyptians settled.
Nile valley
Euphrates Valley
near the Yellow river
near the Tigris river
The writing system developed by the Egyptians.
Cuneiform Script
Hieroglyphic
Oracle Bone Script
Sulva Sutras
What do you call the Egyptian numeral system?
base-20
base-60
binary
base-10 system
It is a tool used by the Egyptians in their system of writing.
Pen
Stones
Clay Tablets
Papyrus
It is where the Ishango Bone discovered.
Africa
India
Asia
Egypt
He is known as the "father of geometry".
Pythagoras
Diophantus
Euclid
Heron of Alexandria
The proponent of the Pythagorean theorem.
Plato
Thales
Archimedes
Pythagoras
The sum of the squares on the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square on the hypotenuse.
Chinese Remainder Theorem
Quadrilateral Theorem
Binomial Theorem
Pythagorean Theorem
It is a simple algorithm to identify all the prime numbers up to any value.
Multiplication Table
Sieve of Eratosthenes
Chinese Remainder Theorem
Magic Squares
He is sometimes called as the "Father of Algebra".
Diophantus
Thales
Plato
Euclid
It is an Old Indo-Aryan language or a written language in India.
Cuneiform
Sulva Sutras
Sanskrit
Hieroglyphics
It is a base-ten (decimal) system since place values increase by powers of ten.
Binary
Sexagesimal
Vegisimal
Hindu-Arabic
Which of the following is Euler’s Identity, said to be one of the most beautiful equations in Mathematics?
𝑒^𝑖𝜋 + 1 = 0
𝐹 = 𝑚𝑎
𝐸 = 𝑚𝑐^2
𝑎^2 + 𝑏^2 = 𝑐^2
Decibels are the unit of measurement for sound intensity. The decibel is named after which inventor?
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander the Great
Bernoulli Graham
Decilde Bernoulli
She was the first to recognize that calculating machines had applications beyond pure calculation and is considered to be the first computer programmer.
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Ada Lovelace
Katherine Johnson
Hypatia
Which branch of mathematics is the least likely to use technology?
Trigonometry
Calculus
Topology
Algebra
Who is considered to be the patron saint of mathematicians?
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Patrick
St. John Baptist de la Salle
St. Hubert
The three name symbols borrowed by the Ionic Greek in Phoenician alphabet.
vau, koph and tau
vau, koph and chi
vau, koppa and sampi
vau, pi and sampi
Most famous of group of people using Ciphered System
Greeks
Brahmin
Ionic Greek
Babylonian
The value of 2 lines with 1 pebble and 4 pebbles below in Mayan Mathematics
11
15
224
none of the above
The symbol 750 in Ionic Greek are ____ ?
psi and mu
psi and nu
chi and mu
chi and nu
Greek mathematics of the period following Alexander the Great is called ____ ?
Pallic
Hellenistic
Renaissance
Modern
Another term for base 60.
sixagisimal
sexagisimal
sexagesimal
none of the above
Bones found near the headwaters of the Nile river (North Eastern Congo) in prehistoric mathematics, is ___ ?
Ishango bone
lebombo bone
congo bone
none of the above
The Father of Geometry
Euclid of Alexandria
Euclid of Babylonia
Euclid of Mesopotamia
Euclid
The base system use by Hindu-Arabic Numeral.
Base 20
Base 10
Base 60
Base 25
Another name for the value of 90 in Ionic Greek
Kappa
Koppa
Kaapa
Kippa
What is 500 in Ionic Greek
phi
upsilon
chi
psi
The writing system of Babylonian.
cunieform
cuneiform
hyroglyphs
sexagesimal
A Latin word which means 1000?
Mile
Milli
Mille
Centum
System of naming numbers
Numeration System
Additive System
Ciphered System
Place-Value System
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
parsec
Who deduced the heights of the pyramids from the lengths of their shadows and measured the distance to a ship from shore by the method of similar triangles?
Plato
Galen
Thales
Pericles
Euripides
Who collaborated with Alfred North Whitehead in writing "Principia Mathematica" and later won the 1950 Nobel prize for literature?
M.C. Esher
Jean Wourier
Norbert Weiner
Leonhard Euler
Bertrand Russell
Who was a mathematician and writer?
Pat Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Leo G. Carroll
Diahann Carroll
Madeline Carroll
What concept was developed by ancient Hindu mathematicians?
zero
conic section
decimal point
360-degree circle
Pythagorean theorem
Ancient Greeks said a natural number is perfect if the sum of all its divisors except itself equals the number. Which number is perfect?
4
9
16
20
28
Who invented the syllogism as the keystone of his system of deductive logic?
Ptolemy
Aristotle
George Boole
Sir Francis Bacon
Nikolai Lobachevski
The 360-degree circle and the 60-minute hour were developed by the
Greeks
Mayans
Romans
Egyptians
Babylonians
Who invented the binary system?
Gottfried Liebnitz
Fibonacci
Leonhard Euler
modern mathematicians
Who introduced Arabic Numbers to the Europeans?
You
Fibonacci
Leonhard Euler
Me
Who wondered the question of "if you could turn the surface of a sphere into a cylinder, what would be the area covered"?
Pythagoras
Blaise Pascal
Gauss
Archimedes
Which civilization was one of the earliest civilizations to use numbers and counting?
Airemus
Sumeria
Roman
India
What object did the Egyptians use to represent the number "100,000"?
Lotus
one gram of gold
A tadpole
horseshoe
What object did the Egyptians use to represent the number "100"?
a flower
a rod
Too big so they didn't have an equipment
the symbol of coiled rope
What object did the Egyptians use to represent the number "1"?
a rod
a rock
a piece of copper
a small chunk of grass
What year was the Ishango Bone found?
1970
1960
1980
2018
What was the first solid evidence of the existence of the number one?
stack of stones
The Indian Plate
Tree Branchs
The Ishango Bone
During the stone age, what did people use to count the number of animals they hunt?
Fingers and tally marks
Rocks
Numbers
They didn't know how to count
Where did the word “mathematics” come from?
(1 Point)
Greeks
Chinese
Indians
Romans
What is the predominant philosophical view regarding the nature of mathematics?
Mathematics is an invented system created by humans.
Mathematics has no inherent nature.
Mathematics is a combination of both invention and discovery.
Mathematics is a discovered system inherent in the universe.
What kind of mathematical statement is always assumed to be true?
Theorem
Axiom
Conjecture
Corollary
If a mathematical statement is not yet proven or disproven, it is called a _____.
conjecture
definition
corollary
lemma
What do you call a minor theorem that follows readily from a previously proven statement and is proved as an easy consequence of a major theorem?
Lemma
Axiom
Conjecture
Corollary
In mathematics, what is the primary purpose of a proof?
To convince others of the truth of a mathematical statement
To provide a detailed explanation of a mathematical concept
To demonstrate the complexity of a mathematical problem
To illustrate the creativity of the mathematician
Which ancient civilization developed a numeral system based on hieroglyphic symbols?
Egyptian
Hindu
Greek
Babylonian
Which civilization was the first to discover "zero"?
Chinese
Indian
Egyptian
Babylonian
Which civilization was the first to use multiplication tables, writing them on clay tablets?
Mayans
Egyptians
Sumerians
Indians
Which Chinese mathematician is credited with the invention of the Chinese Remainder Theorem, which deals with solving systems of congruences?
Liu Hui
Sun Tzu
Zu Chongzhi
Qin Jiushao
Who is considered as the father of mathematics?
Isaac Newton
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Archimedes
Evariste Galois
Who is believed to be the first mathematician?
Thales of Miletus
Leonardo Da Vinci
Archimedes
David Copperfield
Teaching geometry should start from polygons, then triangles, then special right triangles, then finally the Pythagorean theorem. This strategy is called the deductive method, which was invented by _____.
Phytagoras
Aristotle
Euclid
Plato
A Greek mathematician who is mostly remembered for his prime number sieve.
Erastosthenes
Archimedes
Euclid
Regiomontanus
He is the third great Hellenistic mathematician who wrote a treatise about conics, which introduced the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola as sections of a circular cone.
Diophantus
Apollonius
Hipparchus
Hypatia
Which of the following is Eratosthenes’ contribution to the field of Mathematics?
Development of algebra
Calculating the circumference of the Earth
Development of probability theory
Invention of calculus
He measured the length of the year as 365.2421986 days. He was also well known for inventing the method of solving cubic equations by intersecting a parabola with a circle.
Nicolas Oresme
Omar Khayyam
Leonardo of Pisa
Roger Bacon
What book did the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi write, whose title became the origin of the term “algebra”?
El-jibr
Ul-zibre
Al-jabr
Al-habra
He was a Renaissance- and Reformation-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth as the center of the universe.
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Aristarchus of Samos
Columbus
What book, written by Leonardo of Pisa or Fibonacci, introduced the Hindu-Arabic number system to Europe?
Al-jabr
The Elements
Liber Abaci
Ars Magna
Modern physics owes its beginning to him, who was the first astronomer to use a telescope.
Columbus
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Galileo Galilei
His greatest mathematical work is the Ars Magna (methods of solution of the cubic and quartic equation).
John Napier
Girolamo Cardano
Evariste Galois
Augustin Cauchy
His greatest contributions include the invention of dividing rods, which are used as multiplication tables.
Francois Viete
Johannes Kepler
Marin Mersenne
John Napier
Which mathematician, known as the father of analytical geometry, developed the Cartesian coordinate system, which laid the foundation for modern algebraic geometry during the medieval period?
René Descartes
Johannes Kepler
Pierre de Fermat
Leonhard Euler
He was a 16th century mathematician who was the first to define that the probability of an event is the quotient of the number of favorable outcomes over the number of all outcomes. Who was he?
Girolamo Cardano
Blaise Pascal
Richard Dedekind
Scipione del Ferro
Girolamo Cardano
Blaise Pascal
Richard Dedekind
Scipione del Ferro
He introduced the abbreviations of trigonometric ratios (sin, cos, tan) in his treatise on trigonometry.
Girolamo Cardano
Albert Girard
Jacob Bernoulli
Nicolas Carnot
There were two outstanding astronomers who contributed notably to mathematics in the early part of the 17th century: the German Johannes Kepler and the Italian _____.
Johanna Muller
Nicholas Cusa
Nicolas Chuquet
Galileo Galilei
If Gauss is regarded as the "Prince of Mathematics", who is considered to be the "King of Mathematics"?
Descartes
Euler
Pascal
Fermat
He is mostly remembered for the formula "cos x + i sin x", which was important in the early development of the theory of complex numbers and for predicting his own death.
Colin Maclaurin
Leonhard Euler
Abraham de Moivre
Jacob Bernoulli
He has been described as the greatest “might-have-been” in the history of mathematics as he died at the age of 39.
Blaise Pascal
Gregorio de Saint
Gaspard Monge
Bonaventura Cavalier
A 10-year-old primary school boy was given a task by his teacher to add the numbers 1 to 100, which he solved in seconds. This boy grew up to be _____.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Pierre de Fermat
Francois Viete
Albert Einstein
This century came to be known as the Age of Scientific Revolution, which saw an unprecedented explosion of mathematical and scientific ideas across Europe.
18th century
16th century
19th century
17th century
An 18th century Swiss Mathematician, he introduced the "Law of Large Numbers” in his book "The Art of Conjecture". In statistics, this implies that the larger the sample, the more likely will the sample become representative of the population. Who was he?
Girolamo Cardano
Jacob Bernoulli
Bertrand Russell
Stephen Baldwin
He was a French mathematician who introduced the word “pole” in projective geometry.
Pierre de Fermat
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
François-Joseph Servois
Blaise Pascal
He is considered as the father of differential geometry, who introduced the concept of orthographic projection.
Fourier
Lagrange
Monge
Laplace
An 18th century mathematician who invented an analytical machine that can tabulate the values of any function and print the results.
Daniel Bernoulli
Rene Descartes
Charles Babbage
Bernhard Riemann
He is known as the father of modern analysis. During the 19th century, he also devised tests for convergence and is attributed to the theory of periodic functions, Abelian functions and elliptic functions.
Evariste Galois
Karl Weierstrass
Johann Carl Gauss
Johann Dirichlet
Who is the Russian-born mathematician that is considered as the founder of set theory and introduced the concept of infinite numbers with his discovery of cardinal numbers?
Georg Philip Cantor
Augustin Cauchy
George Boole
Nikolai Lobachevsky
His main contribution to mathematics is the definition of real numbers.
Karl Weierstrass
David Hilbert
Pierre de Fermat
Richard Dedekind
She was the first to recognize that calculating machines had applications beyond pure calculation and is considered to be the first computer programmer.
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Ada Lovelace
Katherine Johnson
Hypatia
The quote “logarithmic plots are a device of the devil” is attributed to him, who is known as the creator of the magnitude scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified the strength of earthquakes.
Beno Gutenberg
Charles Francis Richter
Fred W. Kinsinger
Bertrand Russell
He invented a method to determine the optimal values of a linear function subject to certain constraints. This method is known as linear programming. Who is he?
Richard Dedekind
Bertrand Russell
George Dantzig
Georg Cantor
He finally proved Fermat’s Last Theorem for all numbers by proving the Taniyama-Shimara conjecture for semi-stable elliptic curves.
Grigori Perelman
George Polya
Andrew Wiles
Ronald Fisher
What award is considered to be the counterpart of the Nobel Prize for mathematics?
Euler Prize
Fields Medal
Wolf Medal
