Famous Mathematicians Review

Question 1

What are the levels of Lagrange's Lagrangian points?

Accepted Answer

L1-L5

Question 2

The 2014 movie, "The Imitation Game", was based on a true story of what famous mathematician?

Accepted Answer

Alan Turing

Question 3

What type of mechanics did Lagrange study?

Accepted Answer

Celestial

Question 4

Rene Descartes was considered the father of?

Accepted Answer

modern philosophy

Question 5

What did James Gregory invent?

Accepted Answer

Gregorian telescope

Question 6

The Cartesian plane was invented by whom?

Accepted Answer

Descartes

Question 7

Alan Turing was prosecuted for doing what?

Accepted Answer

Homosexual acts

Question 8

What else did Johannes Kepler invent that was very successful?

Accepted Answer

Astronomical Telescope

Question 9

Who is the father of Geometry?

Accepted Answer

Euclid

Question 10

Archimedes is the most famous mathematician and inventor in ancient?

Accepted Answer

Greece

Question 11

Who is buried at Arlington National Cemetery?

Accepted Answer

Grace Hopper

Question 12

Who is considered the father of modern tessellations?

Accepted Answer

MC Escher

Question 13

Who coined the term "bug" to refer to unexplained computer failures?

Accepted Answer

Grace Hopper

Question 14

Emmy Noether introduced the world to what new kind of math?

Accepted Answer

Abstract Algebra

Question 15

Who is considered the father of fractals?

Accepted Answer

Mandelbrot

Question 16

Pythagoras founded a school named?

Accepted Answer

Semicircle

Question 17

John Napier created Napier's Bones, which was a manually-operated calculating device that?

Accepted Answer

multiplies/divides

Question 18

What famous saying came from Rene Descartes?

Accepted Answer

I think, therefore I am

Question 19

What is the Bose-Einstein Condensate used in?

Accepted Answer

lasers/superconductors

Question 20

Albert Einstein was instrumental in the creation of what weapon?

Accepted Answer

Atomic bomb

Question 21

What did Isaac Newton invent?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 22

What term did Archimedes coin while taking a bath?

Accepted Answer

Eureka

Question 23

What is Pascal's triangle?

Accepted Answer

a triangular arrary of binomial coefficients

Question 24

Blaise Pascal created the first digital calculator. What did he name it?

Accepted Answer

Pascaline

Question 25

What did Johannes Kepler invent?

Accepted Answer

eyeglasses

Question 26

Who is considered the father of calculus?

Accepted Answer

Newton

Question 27

Emmy Noether is known for?

Accepted Answer

Both A and B

Question 28

What did John Venn create?

Accepted Answer

Venn diagram

Question 29

Who wrote the book "Elements"?

Accepted Answer

Euclid

Question 30

Pierre de Fermat was the inventor of?

Accepted Answer

differential calculus

Question 31

John Napier originated what concept to help with calculations?

Accepted Answer

logarithms

Question 32

Benoit Mandelbrot used complex numbers to make computer generated fractals, called the?

Accepted Answer

Mandelbrot set

Question 33

Who worked with Isaac Newton on Calculus?

Accepted Answer

Gottfried Leibniz

Question 34

Sophie Germain worked on?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 35

What machine did Alan Turing invent to break the German Enigma and help win WW2?

Accepted Answer

Bombe

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