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1) Pythagoras was born on the Greek island of Samos. 2) Évariste Galois died in a duel aged 20. 3) Robert Recorde invented the equals sign (=) in 1557 AD.
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- 1. HISTORY OF MATHS MultipleChoice Questions
- 2. 1) The mathematicianPythagoras was born on which Greek island? Samos Crete Rhodes
- 3. 3) Which famousmathematician died in a duel aged 20? Évariste Galois Rene Descartes Pierre de Fermat
- 4. 3)The equals sign(=) was invented by Robert Recorde in which year? 1900AD 1557 AD 350BC
- 5. 4)The first portablecalculator appeared in which year? 1920 1987 1970
- 6. 5) In 2014Benedict Cumberbatch played 20th century mathematician Alan Turing in which film? The Imitation Game Good Will Hunting Enigma
- 7. 6) Mathematician andphysicist Isaac Newton was born in which year? 1642 1542 1742
- 8. 7) The wordalgebra comes from which language? Arabic Latin Greek
- 9. 8) Which fieldof mathematics was developed first? deductive logic analytic geometry trigonometry
- 10. 9)Name the Greekmathematician who invented a famous theorem about triangles Aristotle Thales Pythagoras
- 11. 10) Who establishedthe famous Academy in Athens in 387 BC? Democritus Plato Archimedes
- 12. 11)By who famousmathematician was the volume determined? Anaximander Archimedes Zeno
- 13. 12) Who wasthe father of mathematics and music? Pythagoras Einstein Edison
- 14. 13) Egyptians usedlotus flowers to represent? 100 750 1000
- 15. 14) Hypatia (370-415AD) is the first female mathematician we know by name. But how did she die? cut to pieces with shells burned as a heretic stoned
- 16. 15) Pascal, theFrench mathematician and philosopher, has something named after him. What is it? a computer language a style of architecture a town in France
- 17. 16) Leonardo Fibonacci(1170-1250) is known for Fibonacci Numbers. In which city did Leonardo Fibonacci live? Rome Pisa Florence
- 18. 17)The constructing ofan equilateral triangle was the work of: Euclid Abul Hasan al-Uqlidisi Archimedes
- 19. 18) Cubic equationswere first solved algebraically by: del Ferro and Tartaglia Gerolamo Cardano Lodovico Ferrari
- 20. 19) Logarithms wereinvented by: Galileo Galilei Johannes Kepler John Napier
- 21. 20) The partof mathematics that studies quantity, especially as the result of combining numbers Arithmetic Algebra Geometry
- 22. 21) Nicolaus Copernicusattended the university of: Poland Canada Krakow
- 23. 22) What isthe approximations for π record in digits? 13.3 trillion 2.76 billion 5 million
- 24. 23)Who was thementor of the Indian mathematical genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan? Riemann Russell Hardy
- 25. 24)Famous mathematician whocreated the first map of the world Aristotle Eratoshenes Anaximenes
- 26. 25)Greek philosopher bestknown for originating the cosmogenic theory of the four classical elements Aristotle Empedocles Diogenes