Mathematics quiz - 2014

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Mathematics quiz - 2014 An anthology of maths quiz which help the quizzers!!

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MATHEMATICS QUIZAMITH.A.K

Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. everything around you is mathematics Everything around you is numbers.

Shakuntala Devi

What is that interesting mathematical recreation which would not have been discovered had the size of the british and american notebooks been the same?

Hexaflexagons

Conics’ section was discovered by whom?

Menaechmus

Who discovered the ‘isogonic centre’ of the triangle?

Evangelista Torricelli

Who invented logarithm for faster calculation?

John Napier

The anticipation about the invention of integral calculus was done by a renowned mathematician. Who?

Francesco Bonaventura Cavalieri

Which is the first irrational number to be discovered?

The Copernicus of geometry?

Nikolai Lobachevsky

Who was the essays like “mathematics of war and foreign politics”, “statistics of deadly quarrels” to his credit?

Lewis Fry Richardson

The word “group” in the mathematical sense, was used by which mathematician?

Evariste Galois

As a successful businessman in life, he made some original contributions to mathematics also. Name him.

Leopold kronecker

Who wrote the “Law of Verse”?

Henri Poincaré

Who said, “things are numbers?”

Pythagoras

A great mathematician set himself the problem of describing the path of the fly in the language of mathematics, and ‘Analytical Geometry’ was born. Who was he?

Rene Descartes

Who invented the symbol n for n(n is any number)?

Christian Kramp

THANK YOU