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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?

A. George Canter
B. Richard Dedekind
C. Bertrand Russell
D. 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?

A. George Canter
B. Richard Dedekind
C. Bertrand Russell
D. George Dantzig
An 18th century mathematicians who invented an
analytical machine that can tabulate values of
any function and print the results.

A. Jean Fourier
B. Charles Babbage
C. Bertrand Russell
D. Jean-le-Rond D’Alembert
An 18th century mathematicians who invented an
analytical machine that can tabulate values of
any function and print the results.

A. Jean Fourier
B. Charles Babbage
C. Bertrand Russell
D. Jean-le-Rond D’Alembert
An 18th century Swiss Mathematicians, 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?

A. Girolamo Cardano
B. Jacob Bernoulli
C. Bertrand Russell
D. Stephen Baldwin
An 18th century Swiss Mathematicians, 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?

A. Girolamo Cardano
B. Jacob Bernoulli
C. Bertrand Russell
D. Stephen Baldwin
Who published a treatise on trigonometry which
contains the earliest use of our abbreviations: sin,
tan, sec, for sine , tangent and secant?

A. Gregorio de Saint
B. Jhon Napier
C. Albert Gerard
D. Johann Herdde
Who published a treatise on trigonometry which
contains the earliest use of our abbreviations: sin,
tan, sec, for sine , tangent and secant?

A. Gregorio de Saint
B. Jhon Napier
C. Albert Gerard
D. Johann Herdde
The greatest “could-have-been” in the history of
mathematics and he describes in his paper,
Treatise on the Arithmetical triangle, in easy to
understand table of “binomial coefficients”.

A. Blaise Pascal
B. Gaspard Mongue
C. Bonaventura Cavalier
D. Gregorio de Saint
The greatest “could-have-been” in the history of
mathematics and he describes in his paper,
Treatise on the Arithmetical triangle, in easy to
understand table of “binomial coefficients”.

A. Blaise Pascal
B. Gaspard Mongue
C. Bonaventura Cavalier
D. Gregorio de Saint
He introduced the term pole in Projective
Geometry and one of the proponents in the
theory of the Polar Correspondence.

A. Gergonne
B. Klein
C. Servois
D. Wiles
He introduced the term pole in Projective
Geometry and one of the proponents in the
theory of the Polar Correspondence.

A. Gergonne
B. Klein
C. Servois
D. Wiles
He introduces the term polar in Projective
Geometry and one of the proponents in the
theory of Polar Correspondence.

A. Gergonne
B. Klein
C. Servois
D. Wiles
He introduces the term polar in Projective
Geometry and one of the proponents in the
theory of Polar Correspondence.

A. Gergonne
B. Klein
C. Servois
D. Wiles
Today the decibel is being used to measure sound
volume in general. The original unit name
decided upon was Bel; in honour of :

A. Stephen Baldwin
B. Daniel Bernoulli
C. Jacob Bernoulli
D. Alexander Graham Bell
Today the decibel is being used to measure sound
volume in general. The original unit name
decided upon was Bel; in honour of :

A. Stephen Baldwin
B. Daniel Bernoulli
C. Jacob Bernoulli
D. Alexander Graham Bell
The Richter scale is used to rate the magnitude of
an earthquake, that is the amount of energy
released during an earthquake. It was invented in
1935 by:

A. John Napier
B. Charles Richter
C. Johann Bernoulli
D. Alexander Graham Bell
The Richter scale is used to rate the magnitude of
an earthquake, that is the amount of energy
released during an earthquake. It was invented in
1935 by:

A. John Napier
B. Charles Richter
C. Johann Bernoulli
D. Alexander Graham Bell
German Mathematician often cited as the “
Father of Modern Analysis”

A. Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass

B. Gottfried Leibniz
C. Johann Bernoulli
D. James Fermatt
German Mathematician often cited as the “
Father of Modern Analysis”

A. Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass

B. Gottfried Leibniz
C. Johann Bernoulli
D. James Fermatt
At the age of 7, he is reported to have amazed his
teachers by summing the integers from 1 to 100
almost instantly . Who is he?

A. Rene Descarted
B. Gerolamo Cardano
C. Luca Paciolli
D. Carl Friedrich Gauss
At the age of 7, he is reported to have amazed his
teachers by summing the integers from 1 to 100
almost instantly . Who is he?

A. Rene Descartes
B. Gerolamo Cardano
C. Luca Paciolli
D. Carl Friedrich Gauss
He is a famous Italian Astronomer in 17th century
together with Johan Kepler, who made fundamental
contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy,
and the strength of materials and to the development
of the scientific method.

A. Galileo Galilei
B. Isaac Newton
C. Giovanni Domenico Cassini
D. Nicolai Lobachevsky
He is a famous Italian Astronomer in 17th century
together with Johan Kepler, who made fundamental
contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy,
and the strength of materials and to the development
of the scientific method.

A. Galileo Galilei
B. Isaac Newton
C. Giovanni Domenico Cassini
D. Nicolai Lobachevsky
He is a 17th century mathematician who invented
logarithms, popularized the use of decimals and
introduces a multiplication tool using a set of
numbered rods.

A. John Napier
B. Henry Briggs
C. George Boole
D. David Hilbert
He is a 17th century mathematician who invented
logarithms, popularized the use of decimals and
introduces a multiplication tool using a set of
numbered rods.

A. John Napier
B. Henry Briggs
C. George Boole
D. David Hilbert
He is the proponent of common logarithm.

A. John Napier
B. Henry Briggs
C. George Boole
D. David Hilbert
He is the proponent of common logarithm.

A. John Napier
B. Henry Briggs
C. George Boole
D. David Hilbert
He proved the Fermat’s last Theorem
(Taniyama-Shimora Conjecture).

A. Rene Descartes
B. Gerolamo Cardano
C. Andrew Wiles
D. Carl Friedrich Gauss
He proved the Fermat’s last Theorem
(Taniyama-Shimora Conjecture).

A. Rene Descartes
B. Gerolamo Cardano
C. Andrew Wiles
D. Carl Friedrich Gauss
The first to show the ellipses, parabolas and
hyperbolas are obtained by cutting a cone in a
plane not parallel to the base.

A. Eudoxus of Cnidus
B. Menaechmus
C. Archimedes
D. Apollonius of Perga
The first to show the ellipses, parabolas and
hyperbolas are obtained by cutting a cone in a
plane not parallel to the base.

A. Eudoxus of Cnidus
B. Menaechmus
C. Archimedes
D. Apollonius of Perga
Defined a function as a relation between two
variables x and y such that “to some value of x at
any rate correspond values of y”

A. Gustav Dirichlet
B. Hardy
C. Nicolai Lobachevsky
D. Euler
Defined a function as a relation between two
variables x and y such that “to some value of x at
any rate correspond values of y”

A. Gustav Dirichlet
B. Hardy
C. Nicolai Lobachevsky
D. Euler
Who is known as the Father of Computing for
his work on the Difference Engine?

A. Charles Babbage
B. Leonid Kantorovich
C. Alan Turing
D. Ada Lovelace
Who is known as the Father of Computing for
his work on the Difference Engine?

A. Charles Babbage
B. Leonid Kantorovich
C. Alan Turing
D. Ada Lovelace
The equal sign (=) was invented in 1557 by a
Welsh mathematician names?

A. Joseph Fourier
B. Christian Huygens
C. Abraham de Moivre
D. Robert Recorde
The equal sign (=) was invented in 1557 by a
Welsh mathematician names?

A. Joseph Fourier
B. Christian Huygens
C. Abraham de Moivre
D. Robert Recorde
This mathematician is regarded as the “the
revolutionary mathematician” of her times

A. Emmy Noether
B. Hypatia
C. Sophie Germain
D. Mary Boole
This mathematician is regarded as the “the
revolutionary mathematician” of her times

A. Emmy Noether
B. Hypatia
C. Sophie Germain
D. Mary Boole
He acknowledge existences of imaginary
numbers (based on √-1) and wrote the Ars
Magna.

A. Niccolo Tartaglia
B. Gerolamo Cardano
C. Luca Pacioli
D. Rene Descartes
He acknowledge existences of imaginary
numbers (based on √-1) and wrote the Ars
Magna.

A. Niccolo Tartaglia
B. Gerolamo Cardano
C. Luca Pacioli
D. Rene Descartes
He was a Renaissance and Reformation-era
mathematician and astronomer who formulate a
model of the universe that placed the Sun rather
than the Earth at the center of the universe?

A. Aristarchus of Samus
B. Columbus
C. Copernicus
D. Ptolemy
He was a Renaissance and Reformation-era
mathematician and astronomer who formulate a
model of the universe that placed the Sun rather
than the Earth at the center of the universe?

A. Aristarchus of Samus
B. Columbus
C. Copernicus
D. Ptolemy
17th century French mathematician, philosopher
and scientist who was honored by having the
Cartesian coordinate system. His rule of signs is
also a commonly used method in modern
mathematics.

A. Blaise Pascal
B. Piere de Fermat
C. Rene Descartes
D. Bonaventura Cavalieri
17th century French mathematician, philosopher
and scientist who was honored by having the
Cartesian coordinate system. His rule of signs is
also a commonly used method in modern
mathematics.

A. Blaise Pascal
B. Piere de Fermat
C. Rene Descartes
D. Bonaventura Cavalieri
Began the algebra of logic by approaching logic
in a new way, reducing to a simple algebra and
incorporating logic into mathematics.

A. Carl Gauss
B. Evarista Galois
C. George Boole
D. Abraham De Moivre
Began the algebra of logic by approaching logic
in a new way, reducing to a simple algebra and
incorporating logic into mathematics.

A. Carl Gauss
B. Evarista Galois
C. George Boole
D. Abraham De Moivre
He was the writer of set theory and was first to
appreciate the value of one-to-one
correspondence for set theory.

A. Augustin Cauchy
B. George Boole
C. Georg Philipp Cantor
D. Nikolai Lobachevsky
He was the writer of set theory and was first to
appreciate the value of one-to-one
correspondence for set theory.

A. Augustin Cauchy
B. George Boole
C. Georg Philipp Cantor
D. Nikolai Lobachevsky
A rich mathematician in France who invented a
new, non-Greek way of doing geometry, now
called “projective” or “modern geometry”

A. Leonhard Euler
B. Francois Viete
C. Girard Desargues
D. John Napier
A rich mathematician in France who invented a
new, non-Greek way of doing geometry, now
called “projective” or “modern geometry”

A. Leonhard Euler
B. Francois Viete
C. Girard Desargues
D. John Napier
He wrote the Triangulis Omnimodis, a
systematic account of methods for solving
triangles, and lade important contributions to
trigonometry & astronomy.

A. Regiomontanus
B. Gerolamo Cardano
C. Scipione del Ferro
D. Niccolo Tartaglia
He wrote the Triangulis Omnimodis, a
systematic account of methods for solving
triangles, and lade important contributions to
trigonometry & astronomy.

A. Regiomontanus
B. Gerolamo Cardano
C. Scipione del Ferro
D. Niccolo Tartaglia
Known as the father of modern analysis during
19 century who also devised tests for the
th

convergence of series and contributed to the

theory of periodic functions, Abelian functions,
elliptic functions, etc.

A. Johann Dirichlet
B. Karl Weierstrass
C. Evariste Galois
D. Johann Carl Gauss
Known as the father of modern analysis during
19 century who aslo devised tests for the
th

convergence of series and contributed to the

theory of periodic functions, Abelian functions,
elliptic functions, etc.

A. Johann Dirichlet
B. Karl Weierstrass
C. Evariste Galois
D. Johann Carl Gauss
A “grand” Russian mathematician who gave the
basis for applying the theory of probability to
statistical data, worked on number ofprime
numbers not exceeding a guven number, and
proved Bertrand’s conjecture in 1850.

A. Augustin Causchy
B. Pafnuty Chebyshev
C. Farancois Viete
D. Nikolai Lobachevsky
A “grand” Russian mathematician who gave the
basis for applying the theory of probability to
statistical data, worked on number ofprime
numbers not exceeding a guven number, and
proved Bertrand’s conjecture in 1850.

A. Augustin Causchy
B. Pafnuty Chebyshev
C. Farancois Viete
D. Nikolai Lobachevsky
A mathematician of the Medieval Ages who
invented a type of coordinate geometry by
finding the logical equivalence between
tabulating values and graphing.

A. Nicole Oresme
B. Leonardo Fibonacci
C. Roger Bacon
D. Rene Descartes
A mathematician of the Medieval Ages who
invented a type of coordinate geometry by
finding the logical equivalence between
tabulating values and graphing.

A. Nicole Oresme
B. Leonardo Fibonacci
C. Roger Bacon
D. Rene Descartes
A Greek mathematician who remembered for his
prime number sieve.

A. Anaxagoras
B. Erastothenes
C. Pythagoras
D. Thales
A Greek mathematician who remembered for his
prime number sieve.

A. Anaxagoras
B. Erastothenes
C. Pythagoras
D. Thales
A Greek mathematician who remembered for his
prime number sieve.

A. Anaxagoras
B. Erastothenes
C. Pythagoras
D. Thales
He worked on analysis and determinants. He is
best known for his formula for solving
simultaneous equations.

A. Liu Hui
B. Evariste Galois
C. Gabriel Cramer
D. Gottfried Leibniz
He worked on analysis and determinants. He is
best known for his formula for solving
simultaneous equations.

A. Liu Hui
B. Evariste Galois
C. Gabriel Cramer
D. Gottfried Leibniz
Ab 18th century mathematician enunciated the
principles of the Calculus of variations and
became a lecturer in the Royal Artillery at the
age of 19.

A. Jean Baptise Fourier

B. Jean D’ Alembert
C. Piere Simon Laplace
D. Louis Langrange
Ab 18th century mathematician enunciated the
principles of the Calculus of variations and
became a lecturer in the Royal Artillery at the
age of 19.

A. Jean Baptise Fourier

B. Jean D’ Alembert
C. Piere Simon Laplace
D. Louis Langrange
An Italian Mathematician best known today on
his principle “the volumes of two objects are
equal if the areas of their corresponding cross-
section are in any cases equal”

A. Bonaventura Cavalieri
B. Blaise Pascal
C. Pierre de Fermat
D. Rene Descartes
An Italian Mathematician best known today y
his principle “the volumes of two objects are
equal if the areas of their corresponding cross-
section are in a;; cases equal”

A. Bonaventura Cavalieri
B. Blaise Pascal
C. Pierre de Fermat
D. Rene Descartes
An 18th century mathematician whose name is
attached to a wide variety of ideas such as
integral, equations in potential theory, brackets in
differential equations, roots in elasticity, and
constant in electricity.

A. Adrian Legendere
B. Joseph Fourier
C. Simeon Poisson
D. Pierre Laplace
An 18th century mathematician whose name is
attached to a wide variety of ideas such as
integral, equations in potential theory, brackets in
differential equations, roots in elasticity, and
constant in electricity.

A. Adrian Legendere
B. Joseph Fourier
C. Simeon Poisson
D. Pierre Laplace
He proved his famous Basis Theorem as he
worked on invariant theory and challenged
mathematicians to solve fundamental questions
that led to is famous speech the Problems of
Mathematics.

A. Augustin Cauchy
B. Pafnuty Chebyshev
C. Karl Weierstass
D. David Hilbert
He proved his famous Basis Theorem as he
worked on invariant theory and challenged
mathematicians to solve fundamental questions
that led to is famous speech the Problems of
Mathematics.

A. Augustin Cauchy
B. Pafnuty Chebyshev
C. Karl Weierstass
D. David Hilbert
He did notable work in geometry, particularly
studying higher plane curve. He also considered the
geometric problem of finding the difference between
the volume of the frustum of a solid of revolution and
the volume of the cylinder of the same height.

A. Johann Bernoulli
B. Colin Maclaurin
C. Pierre Simon Laplace
D. Joseph Louis Langrange
He did notable work in geometry, particularly
studying higher plane curve. He also considered the
geometric problem of finding the difference between
the volume of the frustum of a solid of revolution and
the volume of the cylinder of the same height.

A. Johann Bernoulli
B. Colin Maclaurin
C. Pierre Simon Laplace
D. Joseph Louis Langrange
He was considered a universal genius by his
contemporaries whose work encompasses not only
mathematics and philosophy but also theology, law,
diplomacy, politics and physics. He also developed
the basic notations of his version of the calculus and
perfected the binary system of arithmetic.

A. Bonaventura Cavalieri
B. Gottfried Leibniz
C. Christian Huygens
D. Rene Descartes
He was considered a universal genius by his
contemporaries whose work encompasses not only
mathematics and philosophy but also theology, law,
diplomacy, politics and physics. He also developed
the basic notations of his version of the calculus and
perfected the binary system of arithmetic.

A. Bonaventura Cavalieri
B. Gottfried Leibniz
C. Christian Huygens
D. Rene Descartes
He achieved real fae when he submitted a paper to the
institute solving one of Fermat’s claims on
polynomial numbers made to Mersenne. He also
wrote the memoir theory of complex functions.

A. Evariste Galois
B. Georg Cantor
C. Bernhard Riemann
D. Augustin Cauchy
He achieved real fae when he submitted a paper to the
institute solving one of Fermat’s claims on
polynomial numbers made to Mersenne. He also
wrote the memoir theory of complex functions.

A. Evariste Galois
B. Georg Cantor
C. Bernhard Riemann
D. Augustin Cauchy
A 17th century mathematicin who solved the problem
on how long weights on the rope so that it hung in a
parabolic shape and showed the fallacy in methods od
squaring a circle.

A. Blaise Pascal
B. Gottfried Leibniz
C. Christian Huygens
D. Pierre de Fermat
A 17th century mathematicin who solved the problem
on how long weights on the rope so that it hung in a
parabolic shape and showed the fallacy in methods od
squaring a circle.

A. Blaise Pascal
B. Gottfried Leibniz
C. Christian Huygens
D. Pierre de Fermat
Italian Mathematician during the Renaissance Period
who was credited for solving on eof the outstanding
ancient problems of mathematics, cubic equations.

A. Niccolo Tartaglia
B. Gerolamo Crdano
C. Scipione del Ferro
D. Regiomontanus
Italian Mathematician during the Renaissance Period
who was credited for solving on eof the outstanding
ancient problems of mathematics, cubic equations.

A. Niccolo Tartaglia
B. Gerolamo Crdano
C. Scipione del Ferro
D. Regiomontanus
A Russian mathematician in the 19th century who
would instead develop geometry without Euclid’s 5 th
postulate and whose achievement exhibits the
development of non-Euclidian geometry.

A. Augustin Cauchy
B. Nikolai Lobachevsky
C. FrancoisViete
D. Pafnuty Chebeshev
A Russian mathematician in the 19th century who
would instead develop geometry without Euclid’s 5 th
postulate and whose achievement exhibits the
development of non-Euclidian geometry.

A. Augustin Cauchy
B. Nikolai Lobachevsky
C. FrancoisViete
D. Pafnuty Chebeshev
He was mostly remembered for his formula for (cosx
+ I sinx)^n, which was important in the early
development of the theory of complex numbers and
for predicting the day of his own death.

A. Abraham de Moivre
B. Jacob Bernoulli
C. Leonhard Euler
D. Collin Maclaurin
He was mostly remembered for his formula for (cosx
+ I sinx)^n, which was important in the early
development of the theory of complex numbers and
for predicting the day of his own death.

A. Abraham de Moivre
B. Jacob Bernoulli
C. Leonhard Euler
D. Collin Maclaurin
A physicist and mathematician and student of Tycho
Brahe who devised the three planetary laws ad
concluded that the orbit of the planets are elliptical.

A. Neil Henrik Abel

B. Gabriel Cramer
C. Johannes Kepler
D. Blaise Pascal
A physicist and mathematician and student of Tycho
Brahe who devised the three planetary laws ad
concluded that the orbit of the planets are elliptical.

A. Neil Henrik Abel

B. Gabriel Cramer
C. Johannes Kepler
D. Blaise Pascal
Inventor of slide rule and introduce the multiplication
symbol.

A. William Rowan Hamilton

B. John Napier
C. William Oughtred
D. Marin Mersenne
Inventor of slide rule and introduce the multiplication
symbol.

A. William Rowan Hamilton

B. John Napier
C. William Oughtred
D. Marin Mersenne
The German Mathematician who first to introduce the
radical sign.

A. Leonardo Fibonacci
B. Christoff Rudolf
C. Al-Khawarizmi
D. John Wallis
The German Mathematician who first to introduce the
radical sign.

A. Leonardo Fibonacci
B. Christoff Rudolf
C. Al-Khawarizmi
D. John Wallis
Geographer and mathematician known for his
geocentric model and known for is theorem on the
diagonals of a cyclical quadrilateral.

A. Caldius Ptolemy
B. Hipparchus
C. Euclid
D. Thales of Miletus
Geographer and mathematician known for his
geocentric model and known for is theorem on the
diagonals of a cyclical quadrilateral.

A. Cladius Ptolemy
B. Hipparchus
C. Euclid
D. Thales of Miletus
He devised the method of solving linear equations
through determinants.

A. Isaac Newton
B. Benoit Mandelbrot
C. Gabriel Cramer
D. Pappus
He devised the method of solving linear equations
through determinants.

A. Isaac Newton
B. Benoit Mandelbrot
C. Gabriel Cramer
D. Pappus
A French amateur mathematician and astronomer who
introduced the first systematic algebraic notation in
his book in artem analyticam isagoge.

A. Francois Vieta
B. Georg Friedrich Rieman
C. De Moivre
D. Pierre de Fermat
A French amateur mathematician and astronomer who
introduced the first systematic algebraic notation in
his book in artem analyticam isagoge.

A. Francois Vieta
B. Georg Friedrich Rieman
C. De Moivre
D. Pierre de Fermat
A French lawyer and government official most
remembred for bis work in number theory. He is also
important in the foundations of the Calculus.

A. Pierre de Fermat
B. Albert Einstein
C. Robert Recorde
D. Guissepe Peano
A French lawyer and government official most
remembred for bis work in number theory. He is also
important in the foundations of the Calculus.

A. Pierre de Fermat
B. Albert Einstein
C. Robert Recorde
D. Guissepe Peano
He is known for his introduction of Fiano plane a
projective plane having 7 points and 7 lines.

A. Isaac Newton
B. Bliase Pascal
C. David Hilbert
D. Gino Fano
He is known for his introduction of Fiano plane a
projective plane having 7 points and 7 lines.

A. Isaac Newton
B. Bliase Pascal
C. David Hilbert
D. Gino Fano