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A #math quiz about mathematicians
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This Greek mathematician is named the "Father of Geometry" for his book
Elements.
Ptolemy
Archimedes
Pythagoras
Euclid
2
This English mathematician is known for his book
Principia
and advancing calculus in 1600s.
Leibniz
Newton
Euclid
Descartes
3
This Indian mathematician contributed greatly to number theory and the infinite series.
Gandhi
Ramanujan
Ptolemy
Newton
4
This German mathematician was Newton's nemesis in the famous dispute and is credited with dx/dy
Descartes
Newton
Einstein
Leibniz
5
This French mathematician is credited with the triangle presenting binomial coefficients.
Descartes
Leibniz
Newton
Pascal
6
Historians have found math in
cuneiform
on tablets dating back to this ancient civilization
Egyptians
Incas
Indians
Babylonians
7
This Greek mathematician was able to approximate π with the method of exhaustion
Euclid
Descartes
Pythagoras
Archimedes
8
This Swiss mathematician has a constant named after him that is the base of natural logarithms.
Eratosthenes
Euler
Euclid
Einstein
9
This French mathematician invented the
Cartesian
coordinate plane.
Isaac Newton
William Shakespeare
René Descartes
Montesquieu
10
This mathematician is the amazing math department chair at Carver Center!
Kearney
Turner
Johnstone
Archimedes
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This Greek mathematician and philosopher is credited the equation: a
2
+b
2
=c
2
.
Pythagoras
Plato
Aristotle
Socrates