Albert Girard

Who published a treatise on trigonometry which contains the earliest use of the abbreviations: sin, tan, sec for sine,
tangent and secant?

Blaise Pascal
He has been described as the greatest "might-have-been" in history of mathematics. Who has he?

Girolamo Cardano
A 16th Century Mathematician, who was first to define the probability of an event as the quotient of all favorable
outcome over the total number of outcomes.

Galileo Galilei
There were two outstanding astronomers who contributed notably to mathematics in the early part of seventeenth
century:
The German Johann Kepter and the Italian ____________.

Alexander Graham Bell

Sound intesity which is measured using decibel scale also uses common logarithm. Decibel is name after whom?

George Dantzig
He invented a method of determining the optimal values of a linear function subject to certain constraints. This method
is known as linear programming. Who is he?

Jacob Bernoulli
An 18th Century Swiss Mathematician, he introduced the "Law of Large Numbers" in his (The Art of Conjecture). In
statistics, this implies that the larger the sample, the more likely will the sample become representative of the
population. Who was he?

John Napier
His greatest contributions include such groundbreaking texts in invention of dividing roots used as multiplication table.

Girard Desargues
A rich Mathematician in France who invented a new, non-Greek way of doing geometry, now called "projective" or
"modern" geometry.

Copernicus
He was a Renaissance - and Reformation - era Mathematician and astronomer, who formulated a model of the universe
that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of Universe.

Pafnuty Chebyshev
A "grand" Russian Mathematician who gave the basis for applying the theory of probability to a statistical data, worked
a number of prime numbers not exceeding a given number, and proved Bertrand Conjecture in 1850.

Johann Gauss
19th Century Mathematician who added the integers from 1 to 100 within seconds by a flash of mathematical insights.

Girolamo Cardano
He published his greatest Mathematical work, Ars Magna (methods of solution of the cubic and quartic equation).

Galileo Galilei
Modern Physics owes its beginning to him, who was the first astronomer to use a telescope.

Charles Francis Richter

The quote "logarithmic plots are device of the devil" is attributed to him who is the most famous as the creator of the
magnitude scale, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified the size of earthquakes.