Famous Mathematicians Drill

1. He invented a method of determining the optimal values of a linear function subject to certain constraints. This method is known as linear programming. Who is he?

• a. George Canter

• b. Richard Dedekind

• c. Bertrand Russel

• D. George Dantzig

2. An 18th century mathematician who invented an analytical machine that can tabulate values of any function and print the results.

• a. Jean Fourier

• b. Charles Babbage

• c. Pierre Simon Laplace

• d. Jean-le-Rond D' Alembert

3. An 18th Century Swiss Mathematician, he introduced the "Law of Large numbers" in his (The art of Conjecture). In statistics, this implies that the larger the sample, the more likely will the sample become representative of the population. Who was he?

• a. Girolamo Cardano

• b. Bertrand Ruseel

• c. Jacob Bernoulli

• d. Stephen Baldwin

4. Who published a treatise on trigonometry which contains the earliest use of our abbreviation: sin, tan, sec, for sine, tangent and secant?

• a. Gregorio de Saint

• b. John Napier

• c. Albert Gerard

• d. Johann Herdde

5. The greatest "could-have-been" in the history of mathematics and he describes in his paper, Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle, an easy to understand table of "binomial coefficients".

• a. Blaise Pascal

• b. Gaspard Monge

• c. Bonaventura Cavalier

• d. Gregorio de Saint

6. He introduced the term pole in Projective Geometry and one of the proponents in the theory of the Polar Correspondence.

• a. Gergonne

• b. Klein

• c. Servois

• d. Wiles

7. He introduced the term polar in Projective Geometry and one of the proponents in the theory of the Polar Correspondence.

• a. Gergonne

• b. Klein

• c. Servois

• d. Wiles

8. Today the decibel is being used to measure sound volume in general. The original unit name decided upon was Bel, in honour of:

• a. Stephen Baldwin

• b. Daniel Bernoulli

• c. Jacob Bernoulli

• d. Alexander Graham Bell

9. The Richter scale is used to rate the magnitude of an earthquake, that is the amount of energy released during an earthquake. It was invented in 1935 by:

• a. Alexander Graham Bell

• b. Johann Bernoulli

• c. Charles Richter

• d. John Napier

10. German Mathematician often cited as the "Father of Modern Analysis"

• a. Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass

• b. Gottfried Leibniz

• c. Johann Bernoulli

• d. James Fermatt