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Math History 100

Total questions: 100

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This is a wedge-shaped system of writing used by the Sumerians or Babylonians.

a)

Hieroglyphics

b)

Cuneiform

c)

Papyrus

d)

Oracle Bone Script

2.

The earliest system of writing developed by the Sumerians.

a)

Sulva Sutras

b)

Hieroglyphic

c)

Cuneiform Script

d)

Oracle Bone Script

3.

It is also known as the base 60 numeric system.

a)

Binary

b)

Sexagesimal

c)

Hindu-Arabic

d)

Vigesimal

4.

It is where the early Egyptians settled.

a)

Nile valley

b)

Euphrates Valley

c)

near the Yellow river

d)

near the Tigris river

5.

The writing system developed by the Egyptians.

a)

Cuneiform Script

b)

Hieroglyphic

c)

Oracle Bone Script

d)

Sulva Sutras

6.

What do you call the Egyptian numeral system?

a)

base-20

b)

base-60

c)

binary

d)

base-10 system

7.

It is a tool used by the Egyptians in their system of writing.

a)

Pen

b)

Stones

c)

Clay Tablets

d)

Papyrus

8.

It is where the Ishango Bone discovered.

a)

Africa

b)

India

c)

Asia

d)

Egypt

9.

He is known as the "father of geometry".

a)

Pythagoras

b)

Diophantus

c)

Euclid

d)

Heron of Alexandria

10.

The proponent of the Pythagorean theorem.

a)

Plato

b)

Thales

c)

Archimedes

d)

Pythagoras

11.

The sum of the squares on the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square on the hypotenuse.

a)

Chinese Remainder Theorem

b)

Quadrilateral Theorem

c)

Binomial Theorem

d)

Pythagorean Theorem

12.

It is a simple algorithm to identify all the prime numbers up to any value.

a)

Multiplication Table

b)

Sieve of Eratosthenes

c)

Chinese Remainder Theorem

d)

Magic Squares

13.

He is sometimes called as the "Father of Algebra".

a)

Diophantus

b)

Thales

c)

Plato

d)

Euclid

14.

It is an Old Indo-Aryan language or a written language in India.

a)

Cuneiform

b)

Sulva Sutras

c)

Sanskrit

d)

Hieroglyphics

15.

It is a base-ten (decimal) system since place values increase by powers of ten.

a)

Binary

b)

Sexagesimal

c)

Vegisimal

d)

Hindu-Arabic

16.
What mathematician is known for the x/y coordinate plane?
a)
Rene Descartes
b)
Pythagoras
c)
Stephen Hawking
d)
Euclid
17.
The mathematical field of game theory was demonstrated in what movie?
a)
A Beautiful Mind
b)
Good Will Hunting
c)
Dead Poets Society
d)
Dumb and Dumber
18.
Issac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz are credited with both working on what popular Advanced Placement math topic?
a)
Calculus
b)
Differential Geometry
c)
Linear Algebra
d)
Economics
19.
Charles Babbage was one of the first to visualize the concept of a computer in England (1834). Who was his patroness that added to his idea and created the first computer program?
a)
Queen Elizabeth
b)
Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace
c)
Jane Eyre
d)
Queen Isabella
20.

Which of the following is Euler’s Identity, said to be one of the most beautiful equations in Mathematics?

a)

𝑒^𝑖𝜋 + 1 = 0

b)

𝐹 = 𝑚𝑎

c)

𝐸 = 𝑚𝑐^2

d)

𝑎^2 + 𝑏^2 = 𝑐^2

21.


Decibels are the unit of measurement for sound intensity. The decibel is named after which inventor?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Alexander the Great

c)

Bernoulli Graham

d)

Decilde Bernoulli

22.


She was the first to recognize that calculating machines had applications beyond pure calculation and is considered to be the first computer programmer.

a)

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

b)

Ada Lovelace

c)

Katherine Johnson

d)

Hypatia

23.

Which branch of mathematics is the least likely to use technology?

a)

Trigonometry

b)

Calculus

c)

Topology

d)

Algebra

24.


Who is considered to be the patron saint of mathematicians?

a)

St. Thomas Aquinas

b)

St. Patrick

c)

St. John Baptist de la Salle

d)

St. Hubert

25.

The three name symbols borrowed by the Ionic Greek in Phoenician alphabet.

a)

vau, koph and tau

b)

vau, koph and chi

c)

vau, koppa and sampi

d)

vau, pi and sampi

26.

Most famous of group of people using Ciphered System

a)

Greeks

b)

Brahmin

c)

Ionic Greek

d)

Babylonian

27.

The value of 2 lines with 1 pebble and 4 pebbles below in Mayan Mathematics

a)

11

b)

15

c)

224

d)

none of the above

28.

The symbol 750 in Ionic Greek are ____ ?

a)

psi and mu

b)

psi and nu

c)

chi and mu

d)

chi and nu

29.

Greek mathematics of the period following Alexander the Great is called ____ ?

a)

Pallic

b)

Hellenistic

c)

Renaissance

d)

Modern

30.

Another term for base 60.

a)

sixagisimal

b)

sexagisimal

c)

sexagesimal

d)

none of the above

31.

Bones found near the headwaters of the Nile river (North Eastern Congo) in prehistoric mathematics, is ___ ?

a)

Ishango bone

b)

lebombo bone

c)

congo bone

d)

none of the above

32.

The Father of Geometry

a)

Euclid of Alexandria

b)

Euclid of Babylonia

c)

Euclid of Mesopotamia

d)

Euclid

33.

The base system use by Hindu-Arabic Numeral.

a)

Base 20

b)

Base 10

c)

Base 60

d)

Base 25

34.

Another name for the value of 90 in Ionic Greek

a)

Kappa

b)

Koppa

c)

Kaapa

d)

Kippa

35.

What is 500 in Ionic Greek

a)

phi

b)

upsilon

c)

chi

d)

psi

36.

The writing system of Babylonian.

a)

cunieform

b)

cuneiform

c)

hyroglyphs

d)

sexagesimal

37.

A Latin word which means 1000?

a)

Mile

b)

Milli

c)

Mille

d)

Centum

38.

System of naming numbers

a)

Numeration System

b)

Additive System

c)

Ciphered System

d)

Place-Value System

39.

Which ancient Egyptian unit of measurement was set as the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger?

a)

cubit

b)

stone

c)

karat

d)

quire

e)

parsec

40.

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?

a)

Plato

b)

Galen

c)

Thales

d)

Pericles

e)

Euripides

41.

Who collaborated with Alfred North Whitehead in writing "Principia Mathematica" and later won the 1950 Nobel prize for literature?

a)

M.C. Esher

b)

Jean Wourier

c)

Norbert Weiner

d)

Leonhard Euler

e)

Bertrand Russell

42.

Who was a mathematician and writer?

a)

Pat Carroll

b)

Lewis Carroll

c)

Leo G. Carroll

d)

Diahann Carroll

e)

Madeline Carroll

43.

What concept was developed by ancient Hindu mathematicians?

a)

zero

b)

conic section

c)

decimal point

d)

360-degree circle

e)

Pythagorean theorem

44.

Ancient Greeks said a natural number is perfect if the sum of all its divisors except itself equals the number. Which number is perfect?

a)

4

b)

9

c)

16

d)

20

e)

28

45.

Who invented the syllogism as the keystone of his system of deductive logic?

a)

Ptolemy

b)

Aristotle

c)

George Boole

d)

Sir Francis Bacon

e)

Nikolai Lobachevski

46.

The 360-degree circle and the 60-minute hour were developed by the

a)

Greeks

b)

Mayans

c)

Romans

d)

Egyptians

e)

Babylonians

47.

Who invented the binary system?

a)

Gottfried Liebnitz

b)

Fibonacci

c)

Leonhard Euler

d)

modern mathematicians

48.

Who introduced Arabic Numbers to the Europeans?

a)

You

b)

Fibonacci

c)

Leonhard Euler

d)

Me

49.

Who wondered the question of "if you could turn the surface of a sphere into a cylinder, what would be the area covered"?

a)

Pythagoras

b)

Blaise Pascal

c)

Gauss

d)

Archimedes

50.

Which civilization was one of the earliest civilizations to use numbers and counting?

a)

Airemus

b)

Sumeria

c)

Roman

d)

India

51.

What object did the Egyptians use to represent the number "100,000"?

a)

Lotus

b)

one gram of gold

c)

A tadpole

d)

horseshoe

52.

What object did the Egyptians use to represent the number "100"?

a)

a flower

b)

a rod

c)

Too big so they didn't have an equipment

d)

the symbol of coiled rope

53.

What object did the Egyptians use to represent the number "1"?

a)

a rod

b)

a rock

c)

a piece of copper

d)

a small chunk of grass

54.

What year was the Ishango Bone found?

a)

1970

b)

1960

c)

1980

d)

2018

55.

What was the first solid evidence of the existence of the number one?

a)

stack of stones

b)

The Indian Plate

c)

Tree Branchs

d)

The Ishango Bone

56.

During the stone age, what did people use to count the number of animals they hunt?

a)

Fingers and tally marks

b)

Rocks

c)

Numbers

d)

They didn't know how to count

57.

Where did the word “mathematics” come from?

(1 Point)

a)

Greeks

b)

Chinese

c)

Indians

d)

Romans

58.

What is the predominant philosophical view regarding the nature of mathematics?

a)

Mathematics is an invented system created by humans.

b)

Mathematics has no inherent nature.

c)

Mathematics is a combination of both invention and discovery.

d)

Mathematics is a discovered system inherent in the universe.

59.

What kind of mathematical statement is always assumed to be true?

a)

Theorem

b)

Axiom

c)

Conjecture

d)

Corollary

60.


If a mathematical statement is not yet proven or disproven, it is called a _____.

a)

conjecture

b)

definition

c)

corollary

d)

lemma

61.

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?

a)

Lemma

b)

Axiom

c)

Conjecture

d)

Corollary

62.

In mathematics, what is the primary purpose of a proof?

a)

To convince others of the truth of a mathematical statement

b)

To provide a detailed explanation of a mathematical concept

c)

To demonstrate the complexity of a mathematical problem

d)

To illustrate the creativity of the mathematician

63.


Which ancient civilization developed a numeral system based on hieroglyphic symbols?

a)

Egyptian

b)

Hindu

c)

Greek

d)

Babylonian

64.

Which civilization was the first to discover "zero"?

a)

Chinese

b)

Indian

c)

Egyptian

d)

Babylonian

65.


Which civilization was the first to use multiplication tables, writing them on clay tablets?

a)

Mayans

b)

Egyptians

c)

Sumerians

d)

Indians

66.

Which Chinese mathematician is credited with the invention of the Chinese Remainder Theorem, which deals with solving systems of congruences?

a)

Liu Hui

b)

Sun Tzu

c)

Zu Chongzhi

d)

Qin Jiushao

67.

Who is considered as the father of mathematics?

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Carl Friedrich Gauss

c)

Archimedes

d)

Evariste Galois

68.

Who is believed to be the first mathematician?

a)

Thales of Miletus

b)

Leonardo Da Vinci

c)

Archimedes

d)

David Copperfield

69.

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 _____.

a)

Phytagoras

b)

Aristotle

c)

Euclid

d)

Plato

70.


A Greek mathematician who is mostly remembered for his prime number sieve.

a)

Erastosthenes

b)

Archimedes

c)

Euclid

d)

Regiomontanus

71.

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.

a)

Diophantus

b)

Apollonius

c)

Hipparchus

d)

Hypatia

72.

Which of the following is Eratosthenes’ contribution to the field of Mathematics?

a)


Development of algebra

b)


Calculating the circumference of the Earth

c)


Development of probability theory

d)


Invention of calculus

73.

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.

a)

Nicolas Oresme

b)

Omar Khayyam

c)

Leonardo of Pisa

d)

Roger Bacon

74.

What book did the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi write, whose title became the origin of the term “algebra”?

a)

El-jibr

b)

Ul-zibre

c)

Al-jabr

d)

Al-habra

75.

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.

a)

Copernicus

b)

Ptolemy

c)

Aristarchus of Samos

d)

Columbus

76.

What book, written by Leonardo of Pisa or Fibonacci, introduced the Hindu-Arabic number system to Europe?

a)

Al-jabr

b)

The Elements

c)

Liber Abaci

d)

Ars Magna

77.


Modern physics owes its beginning to him, who was the first astronomer to use a telescope.

a)

Columbus

b)

Copernicus

c)

Ptolemy

d)

Galileo Galilei

78.


His greatest mathematical work is the Ars Magna (methods of solution of the cubic and quartic equation).

a)

John Napier

b)

Girolamo Cardano

c)

Evariste Galois

d)

Augustin Cauchy

79.

His greatest contributions include the invention of dividing rods, which are used as multiplication tables.

a)

Francois Viete

b)

Johannes Kepler

c)

Marin Mersenne

d)

John Napier

80.

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?

a)

René Descartes

b)

Johannes Kepler

c)

Pierre de Fermat

d)

Leonhard Euler

81.

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

a)

Girolamo Cardano

b)

Blaise Pascal

c)

Richard Dedekind

d)

Scipione del Ferro

82.

He introduced the abbreviations of trigonometric ratios (sin, cos, tan) in his treatise on trigonometry.

a)

Girolamo Cardano

b)

Albert Girard

c)

Jacob Bernoulli

d)

Nicolas Carnot

83.

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 _____.

a)

Johanna Muller

b)

Nicholas Cusa

c)

Nicolas Chuquet

d)

Galileo Galilei

84.

If Gauss is regarded as the "Prince of Mathematics", who is considered to be the "King of Mathematics"?

a)

Descartes

b)

Euler

c)

Pascal

d)

Fermat

85.

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.

a)

Colin Maclaurin

b)

Leonhard Euler

c)

Abraham de Moivre

d)

Jacob Bernoulli

86.


He has been described as the greatest “might-have-been” in the history of mathematics as he died at the age of 39.

a)

Blaise Pascal

b)

Gregorio de Saint

c)

Gaspard Monge

d)

Bonaventura Cavalier

87.


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 _____.

a)

Carl Friedrich Gauss

b)

Pierre de Fermat

c)

Francois Viete

d)

Albert Einstein

88.

This century came to be known as the Age of Scientific Revolution, which saw an unprecedented explosion of mathematical and scientific ideas across Europe.

a)

18th century

b)

16th century

c)

19th century

d)

17th century

89.


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?

a)

Girolamo Cardano

b)

Jacob Bernoulli

c)

Bertrand Russell

d)

Stephen Baldwin

90.

He was a French mathematician who introduced the word “pole” in projective geometry.

a)

Pierre de Fermat

b)

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

c)

François-Joseph Servois

d)

Blaise Pascal

91.


He is considered as the father of differential geometry, who introduced the concept of orthographic projection.

a)

Fourier

b)

Lagrange

c)

Monge

d)

Laplace

92.

An 18th century mathematician who invented an analytical machine that can tabulate the values of any function and print the results.

a)

Daniel Bernoulli

b)

Rene Descartes

c)

Charles Babbage

d)

Bernhard Riemann

93.

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.

a)

Evariste Galois

b)

Karl Weierstrass

c)

Johann Carl Gauss

d)

Johann Dirichlet

94.


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?

a)

Georg Philip Cantor

b)

Augustin Cauchy

c)

George Boole

d)

Nikolai Lobachevsky

95.


His main contribution to mathematics is the definition of real numbers.

a)

Karl Weierstrass

b)

David Hilbert

c)

Pierre de Fermat

d)

Richard Dedekind

96.


She was the first to recognize that calculating machines had applications beyond pure calculation and is considered to be the first computer programmer.

a)

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

b)

Ada Lovelace

c)

Katherine Johnson

d)

Hypatia

97.


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.

a)

Beno Gutenberg

b)

Charles Francis Richter

c)

Fred W. Kinsinger

d)

Bertrand Russell

98.

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?

a)

Richard Dedekind

b)

Bertrand Russell

c)

George Dantzig

d)

Georg Cantor

99.

He finally proved Fermat’s Last Theorem for all numbers by proving the Taniyama-Shimara conjecture for semi-stable elliptic curves.

a)

Grigori Perelman

b)

George Polya

c)

Andrew Wiles

d)

Ronald Fisher

100.

What award is considered to be the counterpart of the Nobel Prize for mathematics?

a)

Euler Prize

b)

Fields Medal

c)

Wolf Medal