17TH CENTURY

1. He patented the first pendulum clock which greatly increase the accuracy of time measurement.

• A. Christiaan Huygens

• B. Blaise Pascal

• C. Isaac Newton

• D. Pierre D. Fermat

2. He develop the basic features of his version of the calculus.

• A. Gotfried Leibnitz

• B. Blaise Pascal

• C. Isaac Newton

• D. Pierre D. Fermat

3. Huygens proposed that every point is a luminous disturbance meets turns into a source of what?

• A. spherical wave itself

• B. Frequency wave

• C. Light waves itself

• D. Mathematical Inspiration

4. He is influential french mathematician and philosopher, who worked conic sections, projective geometry and also laid foundation for theory of probability.

• A. Blaise Pascal

• B. Rene Descartes

• C. Isaac Newton

• D. Bonaventura Cavalieri

5. What do you call Pascal’s invention to help his father work as tax collector.

• A. Pascaline

• B. Mystic Hexagon

• C. Pascal Triangle

• D. Scientific Calculator

6. He laid the branch of calculus - differential and integral calculus.

• A. Isaac Newton

• B. Manny Pacquiao

• C. Willie Revillame

• D. Andres Bonifacio

7. He is the English Mathematician who proved the Fermat's Last theorem.

• A. Rene Descartes

• B. Andrew Wiles

• C. Isaac Newton

• D. Christiaan Huygens

8. He is often called as the founder of the modern theory of numbers.

• A. Pierre D. Fermat

• B. Andrew Wiles

• C. Isaac Newton

• D. Christiaan Huygens

9. It is a system in which the location of a point is given by coordinates that represent its distances from perpendicular lines.

• A. Cartesian Coordinate System

• B. System of Linear Equations

• C. Integral Calculus

• D. Cavalieri’s Principle System

10. Deals with concept of integration, involves finding accumulated or total effect of changing quantity

• A. 17th Century Mathematics

• B. System of Linear Equations

• C. Integral Calculus

• D. Cavalieri’s Principle System