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Question 1: Who was born in Lincolnshire, England on Jan 4, 1643?
Answer:
Newton
Question 2: What medal was Gauss given?
Answer:
a medal to be the prince of mathematicians
Question 3: What is Gauss the founder of?
Answer:
differential geometry
Question 4: What made Euclid so influential?
Answer:
he was one of the first to attempt to standardize mathematics
Question 5: Fermat changed his name from ---- to -----.
Answer:
Pierre Fermat, Pierre de Fermat
Question 6: How many children did Euler have?
Answer:
13
Question 7: What was Archimedes nickname during his own time?
Answer:
the wise one, the master, the great geometer
Question 8: In which year was Newton born?
Answer:
1643
Question 9: What was the method of math that Euclid inspired?
Answer:
Axiomatic method of modern mathmatics
Question 10: What did Newton's work Optics describe?
Answer:
his theory of light as a blend of different colors Question 11: What polygon did Gauss construct using only a ruler and a compass and what was its significance?
Answer:
heptadecagon, it was the most major advance since the Greeks
Question 12: What was Euler's best-known text?
Answer:
Introductio in Analysin Infinitorum
Question 13: What is Euclid's famous fifth postulate known as?
Answer:
the parallel postulate
Question 14: What was Descartes family life?
Answer:
wealthy, well-to-do family
Question 15: Which two delestial objects are named for Euler?
Answer:
asteroid, lunar crater
Question 16: What was one of Archimedes' nicknames?
Answer:
the great geometer
Question 17: What was Sophie's system of primes?
Answer:
If p and 2p+1 are prime, then p is a Sophie Germain prime
Question 18: What is Elements?
Answer:
a 13 volume work of Greek math and geometry Question 19: Which mathematician sent false proofs when he sent theorems to other mathematicians?
Answer:
Archimedes Question 20: At what age did Gauss impress his teachers by adding the integers from 1 to 100 by recognizing that the sum was fifty pairs of numbers each pairing to sum 101?
Answer:
7
Question 21: What religion was Euler?
Answer:
Lutheran - all his life
Question 22: What did Gauss invent as a result of the geodesic survey?
Answer:
heliotrope
Question 23: In what city are Descartes remains?
Answer:
Paris, France
Question 24: Where did Fermat practice law and study math?
Answer:
Toulouse
Question 25: Who was Archimedes father?
Answer:
Phidias
Question 26: What did Candorcet say at Euler's death?
Answer:
"He ceased to calculate and to live" Question 27: Which organization did Newton ask to look into who truly created the Theory of Calculus?
Answer:
The Royal Society
Question 28: Which university did Euler attend at the age of 13?
Answer:
University of Basel
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