[5th Period] History of Maths Quiz

In what country is the Monument to Georg Cantor?

• America

• Mozambique

• Great Britain

• Germany

• Russia

What subject in math did Georg Cantor devote so much time to studying that other mathematicians avoided?

• Imaginary Numbers

• Chaos Theory

• Orbits

• Infinity

• Zero

True or False: Infinity can be bigger than infinity.

• True

• False

Mathematician Henri Poincaré was trying to help solve a colleagues problem and stumbled across what major mathematical idea?

• Orbit

• Gravity

• Chaos Theory

• Cubes

• Factoring

Can you distort the representation of a bagel into a basketball?

• Yes, of course

• Yes, only with alchemy

• No, coffee mugs are gluten free

• No, the topology is different

Kurt Gödel, known for showing that math is unable to prove its own consistency, was a member of a famous group of philosophers named_________

• Vienna Circle

• Paris Triangle

• London Square

• Berlin Binomial

American mathematician ______ ________ established that there are many types of math which create conflicting answers to the same problems.

• Greg Abbot

• Paul Cohen

• Adam Haahmershmidt

• Leonard Euler

André Weil melded two mathematical subjects in creating _________ ____________?

• Geometric Trigonometry

• Algebraic Geometry

• Geometric Calculus

• Historic Algebra

Algebraic Geometry helped to solve some of math's toughest unfinished problems. Which of these is one that was solved?

• Fermat's Last Theorem

• Infinite Prime Number Theory

• Gamma Tau Alpha III

• Pythagorean Theorem

The Riemann Hypothesis currently has a __________ bounty on the problem for the first person who solves it.

• $100^1

• $1000^5

• $1000^2

• $10^6