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.

1. HISTORY OF MATHS
Multiple Choice Questions

2. 1) The mathematician Pythagoras was born
on which Greek island?
Samos Crete Rhodes

3. 3) Which famous mathematician 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 portable calculator appeared in
which year?
1920
1987
1970

6. 5) In 2014 Benedict Cumberbatch played 20th
century mathematician Alan Turing in which film?
The Imitation Game
Good Will Hunting
Enigma

7. 6) Mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton
was born in which year?
1642
1542
1742

8. 7) The word algebra comes from which
language?
Arabic Latin Greek

9. 8) Which field of mathematics was developed
first?
deductive logic
analytic geometry
trigonometry

10. 9)Name the Greek mathematician who
invented a famous theorem about triangles
Aristotle Thales Pythagoras

11. 10) Who established the famous Academy in
Athens in 387 BC?
Democritus Plato Archimedes

12. 11)By who famous mathematician was the
volume determined?
Anaximander Archimedes Zeno

13. 12) Who was the father of mathematics and
music?
Pythagoras Einstein Edison

14. 13) Egyptians used lotus flowers to
represent?
100
750
1000

15. 14) Hypatia (370-415 AD) 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, the French 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 of an equilateral triangle
was the work of:
Euclid
Abul Hasan
al-Uqlidisi
Archimedes

19. 18) Cubic equations were first solved
algebraically by:
del Ferro and Tartaglia
Gerolamo Cardano
Lodovico Ferrari

20. 19) Logarithms were invented by:
Galileo
Galilei
Johannes
Kepler
John Napier

21. 20) The part of mathematics that studies quantity,
especially as the result of combining numbers
Arithmetic
Algebra
Geometry

22. 21) Nicolaus Copernicus attended the
university of:
Poland Canada Krakow

23. 22) What is the approximations for π record
in digits?
13.3
trillion
2.76
billion
5
million

24. 23)Who was the mentor of the Indian
mathematical genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan?
Riemann
Russell
Hardy

25. 24)Famous mathematician who created the
first map of the world
Aristotle Eratoshenes Anaximenes

26. 25)Greek philosopher best known for originating
the cosmogenic theory of the four classical
elements
Aristotle Empedocles Diogenes