18TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS

Who were the dominant family of mathematicians in the 18th century?

• The Laplace family

• The Lagrange family

• The Euler family

• The Bernoulli family

Where did Leonhard Euler spend most of his time during the 18th century?

• France

• Russia

• Germany

• Switzerland

Which mathematician proposed the Goldbach Conjecture in a letter to Euler in 1742?

• Adrien-Marie Legendre

• Christian Goldbach

• Joseph Louis Lagrange

• Pierre-Simon Laplace

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

Which French mathematician is sometimes referred to as 'the French Newton'?

• Gaspard Monge

• Adrien-Marie Legendre

• Pierre-Simon Laplace

• Joseph Louis Lagrange

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

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

Who provided a rigorous proof in 1761 that π is irrational?

• Joseph Louis Lagrange

• Pierre-Simon Laplace

• Adrien-Marie Legendre

• Johann Lambert

Who introduced hyperbolic functions into trigonometry and made some prescient conjectures regarding non-Euclidean space and the properties of hyperbolic triangles?

• Johann Lambert

• Adrien-Marie Legendre

• Pierre-Simon Laplace

• Joseph Louis Lagrange

Who proved that π is also transcendental, i.e. it cannot be the root of any polynomial equation with rational coefficients?

• Joseph Louis Lagrange

• Pierre-Simon Laplace

• Adrien-Marie Legendre

• Johann Lambert