Education Math Exams (Math Hist) – Page 3

#40. Swiss mathematician who was the first to use the term integral. He was an early user of polar coordinates and discovered the isochrone.
A Johann Bernoulli
B Daniel Bernoulli
C Jacob Bernoulli
D Edmond Halley
Answer: Jacob Bernoulli
#41. The mathematician and physicist who developed the Bernoulli Energy Equation.
A Jakob Bernoulli
B Johann Bernoulli
C Nicolaus II Bernoulli
D Daniel Bernoulli
Answer: Daniel Bernoulli
#42. The French mathematician who pioneered in analysis and the theory of substitution groups (groups whose elements are ordered sequences of a set of things).
A Augustin-Louis Cauchy
B Evarsite Galois
C Carl Friedrich Gauss
D Karl Weierstrass
Answer: Augustin-Louis Cauchy,
#43. He was a German mathematician often cited as the "father of modern analysis".
A Karl Weierstrass
B Carl Friedrich Gauss
C Bernhard Riemann
D Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Answer: Karl Weierstrass
#44. Who is the author of classic “Principia Mathematica”?
A Archimedes
B Pierre de Fermat
C Carl Friedrich Gauss
D A. N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell.
Answer: A. N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell.
#45. Who wrote one of the greatest mathematical treatises of ancient times the “Arithmetica”?
A Diophantus
B Euclid
C Al-Khwarizmi
D Archimedes
Answer: Diophantus
#46. Who wrote “A Mathematician‘s Apology”?
A Marcus du Sautoy
B Paul Lockhart
C G. H Hardy
D Unknown Author
Answer: G. H Hardy
#47. The author of the book "The Paradoxes of the Infinite".
A Paolo Zellini
B Ramanujan
C Bernhard Bolzano
D Felix Hausdorff
Answer: Bernhard Bolzano
#48. Who wrote “Liber Abaci” which introduced the Indian number system and zero to the Europe?
A Galileo Galilei
B Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
C Leonardo da Pisa
D Blaise Pascal
Answer: Leonardo da Pisa
#49. He wrote the classic “On Growth and Form” a mathematical treatment of natural history?
A Julian Huxley
B D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
C Aristid Lindenmayer and Przemysław Prusinkiewicz
D Philip Ball
Answer: D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
#50. The common symbol for infinity, ∞ , was invented by _________.
A G.W. Liebnitz
B Sir Isaac Newton
C John Wallis
D Bernhard Riemann
Answer: John Wallis
#51. Problem 14 from the _________ Papyrus shows an illustration with an example to find the volume of a truncated pyramid
A Plimpton
B Babylonian
C Moscow
D Rhind
Answer: Moscow