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Famous Mathematicians Quiz



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  1. Which ancient Greek mathematician is famous for his theorem about right-angled triangles?
  2. Which Greek mathematician is known as the "Father of Geometry"?
  3. Who is credited with inventing calculus alongside Isaac Newton?
  4. Who introduced the Cartesian coordinate system, linking algebra and geometry?
  5. Maryam Mirzakhani was the first woman to win which prestigous mathematics medal?
  6. Who developed set theory and introduced the concept of different sizes of infinity?
  7. Sir Andrew Wiles is best known for proving whose last theorem?
  8. Who formulated the laws of planetary motion in the early 17th century?
  9. Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan was the subject of which 2015 film?
  10. Who developed the binomial theorem and has a famous triangle named after him?
  11. Which Welsh mathematician invented the equals sign?
  12. Which Scottish mathematician developed logarithms to simplify complex calculations?
  13. Which mathematician’s name is given to a sequence that starts with 0 and 1, where each term is the sum of the two preceding ones?
  14. Who first developed a formula for finding the volume of a sphere and was killed during the Roman conquest of Syracuse?
  15. Which British mathematician played a key role in breaking the Enigma code during World War II?
  16. Who is regarded as the first computer programmer for her work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine?
  17. Which British mathematician and logician wrote The Laws of Thought and developed Boolean algebra?
  18. Welsh mathematician William Jones was the first to use which letter in a 1706 publication?
  19. Which French mathematician and physicist formulated the wave equation, describing how waves propagate?
  20. Dodgson's method is an electoral system based on a proposal by mathematician Charles Dodgson, who is better known by which name?


Answers



  1. Pythagoras
  2. Euclid
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  4. René Descartes
  5. Fields Medal
  6. Georg Cantor
  7. Fermat's Last Theorem
  8. Johannes Kepler
  9. The Man Who Knew Infinity
  10. Blaise Pascal
  11. Robert Recorde
  12. John Napier
  13. Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa)
  14. Archimedes
  15. Alan Turing
  16. Ada Lovelace
  17. George Boole
  18. π (pi)
  19. Fourier
  20. Lewis Carroll (famous author)