1.

He travelled to Toledo, Spain to learn Arabic so he could read Ptolemy�s

Almagest, since no Latin translations existed at that time.
A. Gerard of Cremona
B. Adelard of Bath
C. Leonardo Fibonacci
ANSWER: A
2. He translated Al� Khwarizmi�s tables and also wrote on the abacus and on the
astrolabe.
A. Gerard of Cremona
B. Adelard of Bath
C. Leonardo Fibonacci
ANSWER: B
3. He played an important role in reviving ancient mathematics while making
significant contributions of his own.
A. Gerard of Cremona
B. Adelard of Bath
C. Leonardo Fibonacci
ANSWER: C
4. He also wrote Liber quadratorum, a brilliant work on intermediate analysis.
A. Gerard of Cremona
B. Adelard of Bath
C. Leonardo Fibonacci
ANSWER: C
5. The founder of the Medieval school of mechanics.
A. Nicole Oresme
B. Jordanus Nemorarius
C. Robert Suiseth
ANSWER: B
6. He invented coordinate geometry before Descartes whereby he established the
logical equivalence between tabulated values and their graphs.
A. Nicole Oresme
B. Jordanus Nemorarius
C. Robert Suiseth
ANSWER: A
7. An English logician, better known as Calculator solved the following infinite
series problem.
A. Nicole Oresme
B. Jordanus Nemorarius
C. Robert Suiseth
ANSWER: C
8. What are the names of the two men who discovered calculus?
A. Cauchy and Berkeley
B. Newton and Bishop
C. Newton and Leibniz
ANSWER: C
9. His interests covered almost all aspects of mathematics, from geometry to
calculus to trigonometry to algebra to number theory, as well as optics, astronomy,
cartography, mechanics, weights and measures and even the theory of music.
A. Leonhard Euler
B. Pierre de Fermat
C. Rene Descartes
ANSWER: A
10. Fermat discovered that the numbers 17,296 and 18,416 are
A. amicable
B. adorable
C. lovable
ANSWER: A
11. He effectively invented modern number theory virtually single-handedly, despite
being a small-town amateur mathematician.
A. Leonhard Euler
B. Pierre de Fermat
C. Rene Descartes
ANSWER: B
12. One example of his many theorems is the Two Square Theorem, which shows that
any prime number which, when divided by 4, leaves a remainder of 1 (i.e., can be
written in the form 4n + 1), can always be re-written as the sum of two square
numbers.
A. Leonhard Euler
B. Pierre de Fermat
C. Rene Descartes
ANSWER: B
13. Has been dubbed the Father of Modern Philosophy, but he was also one of the key
figures in the Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century, and is sometimes
considered the first of the modern school of mathematics.
A. Leonhard Euler
B. Pierre de Fermat
C. Rene Descartes
ANSWER: C
14. He published his ground-breaking philosophical and mathematical treatise
Discours de la methode (the Discourse on Method), and one of its appendices in
particular, La GEomEtrie, is now considered a landmark in the history of
mathematics.
A. Leonhard Euler
B. Pierre de Fermat
C. Rene Descartes
ANSWER: C
15. The discovery that initially sealed his reputation was announced in 1735 and
concerned the calculation of infinite sums and it was called the Basel problem.
A. Leonhard Euler
B. Pierre de Fermat
C. Rene Descartes
ANSWER: A