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