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20 Famous Mathematicians Quiz
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Identify famous mathematicians from information given about them.
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Which mathematician calculated the circumference of the earth and has a sieve for finding primes named after him?
Euclid
Pythagoras
Hypatia
Eratosthenes
2
Which French mathematician was one of the co-founders of "The Theory of Probability"?
Pascal
Fermat
Pythagoras
Descartes
3
Which Greek created the astrolabe and many devices for measuring the density of fluids?
Descartes
Eratosthenes
Hypatia
Pythagoras
4
Which ancient Greek is known as "The Founder of Geometry"?
Eratosthenes
Pythagoras
Euclid
Archimedes
5
Which mathematician, known as the inventor of analytical geometry, famously said "I think, therefore I am!"?
Descartes
Pascal
Fermat
Archimedes
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Which mathematician is famous for his "Theory of Relativity"?
Gauss
Euclid
Newton
Einstein
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Is Ramanujan a famous Indian mathematician known for his contributions to number theory and infinite series?
False
True
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Which Greek mathematician is famously associated with Triangles?
Archimedes
Hypatia
Euclid
Pythagoras
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Which mathematician's "algebra of logic" helped form the basics of circuit designs?
Boole
Turing
Fermat
Babbage
10
Which Italian number theorist is known for number sequences formed by adding previous numbers in the sequence together?
Fibonacci
Fermat
Pascal
Descartes
11
Which English mathematician created the "difference engine" and is known as the "Father of the Computer"?
Newton
Turing
Boole
Babbage
12
Which Swiss mathematician is the founder of topology?
Napier
Einstein
Leibniz
Euler
13
Which Scottish mathematician discovered logarithms and introduced the method of multiplication shown in the picture?
Napier
Turing
Babbage
Pascal
14
Did Leibniz, a German mathematician, independently invent differential and integral calculus?
False
True
15
Who is considered to be the creator of modern computer science?
Ramanujan
Boole
Turing
Babbage
16
Which of these is a famous graphical artist known for drawings depicting mathematically impossible situations?
Euclid
Eratosthenes
Euler
Escher
17
Which mathematician discovered the Laws of Gravity?
Newton
Archimedes
Turing
Boole
18
Through his work on the property of curves, which French mathematician contributed to the development of calculus?
Napier
Fermat
Descartes
Pascal
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Who is known as the "Father of Mathematics"?
Archimedes
Hypatia
Einstein
Pythagoras
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Which mathematician and physicist created a formula for finding the sum of all integers between 1 and any larger number?
Einstein
Leibniz
Gauss
Euler