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Story of Math - Part 2
Story of Math - Part 2
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The History of Math dating back to ancient civilizations
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Magic squares first came up in
India
Circus
China
Babylonia
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The ancient Chinese number system used
small bamboo rods
small baobab rods
small eucalyptus rods
small palm tree rods
3
Which of the following Mathematicians created the generic method to find the solution to Cubic Equations?
Lodovico Ferrari
Gerolamo Cardano
Venetian Tartaglia
Blaise Pascal
4
Omar Khayyam was a
Librarian
Poet, philosopher and mathematician
Warrior
Caliph
5
Al Khwarizmi used ____________ to solve problems.
Geometry
Trigonometry
Statistics
Algebra
6
What study of math includes letters along with numbers?
Trigonometry
Geometry
Algebra
Numericy
7
This father of Mathematics created practical applications, formulas, and approached pi
Archimedes
Pythagoras
Galileo
Socrates
8
What did Indian mathematician Brahmagupta discover around 600 A.D.?
Gravity
Square Roots
Pi
The number 0
9
The famous maths textbook having 246 practical problems that was created in China is called:
the 8 chapters
the 10 chapters
the 7 chapters
the 9 chapters
10
What does this symbol represent?
Rational
Infinity
Stop
Irrational
11
Who is remembered for the right triangle theorem?
Euler
Euclid
Newton
Pythagoras
12
Leonardo of Pisa is the name of
Caproni
Fibonacci
Galileo Galelei
Leonardo Da Vinci
13
The _____ function was used by the Indians to measure ratios of distances between celestial objects
Cye
Sine
Sign
Sigh
14
The first historically accurate formula of Pi is credited to Madhava of Kerala
True
False
15
This civilization is noted for inventing Geometry
Greek
Roman
Mayan
Babylonian
16
This ancient mathematician estimated the earliest known closest value of the circumference of the Earth
Aryabhatta
Ashoka
Madhava
Bhaskara
17
In what parts of nature do we see the Fibonacci Series?
all of the above
pine needles
shells
Rabbit reproduction
18
Al Khwarizmi worked in the house of wisdom in ___________
Muscat
Cairo
Riyadh
Baghdad
19
Zero was invented by Indians
False
True
20
What does the name Tartaglia mean?
stutterer
math
philosopher
algebra
21
In the 5
A.D, in a Sanskrit shloka, who gave the value of pi as 3.1416?
Bhaskara
Aryabhatta
Varahamihira
Manuja Grantha
22
The ancient "house of wisdom" which was a library for books on Mathematics could have been found in
Alexandria
Morocco
Baghdad
India