18TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS

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Ivy Joy Omlang
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who were the dominant family of mathematicians in the 18th century?
The Laplace family
The Lagrange family
The Euler family
The Bernoulli family
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Where did Leonhard Euler spend most of his time during the 18th century?
France
Russia
Germany
Switzerland
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which mathematician proposed the Goldbach Conjecture in a letter to Euler in 1742?
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Christian Goldbach
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Pierre-Simon Laplace
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who is credited with originating the theory of groups, which became important in 19th and 20th Century mathematics?
Johann Lambert
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Gaspard Monge
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which French mathematician is sometimes referred to as 'the French Newton'?
Gaspard Monge
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Joseph Louis Lagrange
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract algebra and mathematical analysis in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries?
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Gaspard Monge
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Joseph Louis Lagrange
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who was the inventor of descriptive geometry, a method of representing three-dimensional objects by projections on the two-dimensional plane?
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Gaspard Monge
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Adrien-Marie Legendre
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