17th CENTURY MATHEMATICS

Who invented logarithms in the early 17th Century?

• John Napier

• Pierre de Fermat

• Blaise Pascal

• Isaac Newton

What is the base for natural logarithms?

• π

• e

• 10

• 2

Which French mathematician is considered one of the founders of projective geometry?

• Blaise Pascal

• Pierre de Fermat

• Girard Desargues

• René Descartes

Who is credited with the first published work on probability theory?

• Gottfried Leibniz

• Isaac Newton

• Marin Mersenne

• Christiaan Huygens

Which mathematician is considered one of the greatest of all time, along with Archimedes and Gauss?

• Pierre de Fermat

• Blaise Pascal

• Gottfried Leibniz

• Isaac Newton

Who developed a geometrical approach to calculus known as Cavalieri’s principle?

• Isaac Barrow

• Bonaventura Cavalieri

• Girard Desargues

• John Wallis

Who made significant contributions towards the development of calculus and originated the idea of the number line?

• Bonaventura Cavalieri

• Isaac Barrow

• Girard Desargues

• John Wallis

Who completely revolutionized mathematics by the development of infinitesimal calculus?

• Pierre de Fermat

• Blaise Pascal

• Isaac Newton

• Gottfried Leibniz

Who is considered the first of the modern school of mathematics?

• Blaise Pascal

• René Descartes

• Pierre de Fermat

• Girard Desargues

Who is largely remembered in mathematics today in the term Mersenne primes?

• Christiaan Huygens

• Isaac Newton

• Marin Mersenne

• Gottfried Leibniz