Which Greek mathematician is known for the Pythagorean theorem?

Famous Mathematicians and Their Contributions

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Pythagoras
Euclid
Archimedes
Aristotle
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Who among the following Indian mathematicians provided the first systematic treatment of zero?
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Bhaskara
Brahmagupta
Aryabhata
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Which Italian mathematician is famous for introducing a sequence that bears his name?
Galileo Galilei
Fibonacci
Leonardo da Vinci
Joseph Louis Lagrange
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who is known as the father of the computer?
Alan Turing
John von Neumann
Charles Babbage
Isaac Newton
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which French mathematician developed Cartesian coordinates?
Pierre de Fermat
Blaise Pascal
Henri Poincaré
René Descartes
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who is often referred to as 'The Prince of Mathematicians'?
David Hilbert
Bernhard Riemann
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Emmy Noether
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Which mathematician's work laid the groundwork for Einstein's theory of relativity?
Kurt Gödel
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Bernhard Riemann
David Hilbert
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