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This document appears to be a final exam in the history of mathematics. It contains 20 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of important figures and developments in the field of mathematics from prehistoric times through the 19th century. The questions cover topics like the origins of mathematics, important ancient Greek and Indian mathematicians like Pythagoras, Euclid, and Brahmagupta, the development of algebra and calculus, and later mathematicians such as Euler, Gauss, and Weierstrass.

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Let History of Math

This document appears to be a final exam in the history of mathematics. It contains 20 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of important figures and developments in the field of mathematics from prehistoric times through the 19th century. The questions cover topics like the origins of mathematics, important ancient Greek and Indian mathematicians like Pythagoras, Euclid, and Brahmagupta, the development of algebra and calculus, and later mathematicians such as Euler, Gauss, and Weierstrass.

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Philippine Normal University

The National Center for Teacher Education


Mindanao
Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur

Final Examination in History of Mathematics


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It is a prehistoric time when people developed ideas of trade, private property and quantity.
a. Paleolithic Age b. Neolitic Age c. Prehistory d. Ancient Orient Age
The root of the term mathematics in the Greek word, which was used quite generally in early
writings to indicate any subject of instruction or study.
a. Mathemata b. Mathamata c. Numerica
d. Mathematica
He is the Father of History who
made three principal journeys, perhaps
as
a
merchant, collecting material and recording his impressions.
a. Plato
b. Napoleon
c. Herodotus
d. King Narmer
The Greek mathematician who tried to solve the problem of squaring the circle while he was in
prison.
a. Anaxagoras b. Pythagoras c. Eratosthenes d. Thales
They were ancient orient inhabitants who saw the need for number systems and led their efforts to
the evolution of algebraic expressions.
a. Chinese b. Egyptians c. Babylonians d. Indians
An ancient orient mathematics that was very much problem-based, that is, motivated by problems
of the calendar, trade, land measurement, architecture, government records and taxes.
a. Chinese Mathematics
b. Egyptians Mathematics
c. Babylonians Mathematics
d. Indians Mathematics
Believed to be the first to discover zero.
a. Chinese b. Indian c. Egyptian d. Babylonian
The most prominent ancient mathematician best known for his treatise on mathematics, The
Elements.
a. Plato b. Pythagoras c. Euclid d. Aristotle
He is often regarded as the first pure mathematician.
a. Plato b. Pythagoras c. Euclid d. Aristotle
He worked on prime numbers, most remembered for his prime number sieve.
a. Archimedes b. Eratosthenes c. Thales d. Pappus
He wrote Liber Abaci, a free rendition of Greek and Arabic works in Latin which taught the Hindu
methods of calculation with integers and fractions, square roots and cube roots.
a. Leonardo of Pisa b. Roger Bacon c. Brahmagupta d. Gerard Desargues
He published his greatest mathematical work Ars Magna, methods of solution of the cubic and
quartic equation.
a. Lodovico Ferrari
b.Rene Descartes c.Marin Mersenne d. Girolamo Cardano
He was honored by having the Cartesian coordinate system.
a. Daniel Bernoulli c. Blaise Pascal c. Pierre de Fermat d. Rene Descartes
He perfected the binary system of arithmetic sometime around 1679.
a. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz b. Jacob Bernoulli c. Christian Huygens d. Leonard Euler
He published the Ars Conjectandi (The Art of Prediction), a work of the greatest significance in
the theory of probability.
a. Jacob Bernoulli b. Johann Bernoulli c. Abraham De Moivre d. Colin Maclaurin
Known as the Archimedes of his age and this is indeed inscribed on his tombstone.
a. Johann Bernoulli b. Daniel Bernoulli c. Jacob Bernoulli d. Nicolaus (II) Bernoulli
Most prolific writer of mathematics of all time, wrote around 380 articles and books on calculus of
variations, despite the total blindness, using only his remarkable memory, he was able to continue
with his work on optics, algebra and lunar motion.
a. Leonard Euler
b. Isaac Newton c. Emil Lemoine d. Simon Laplace
Considered the Father of Differential Geometry, devised his own graphical method to construct
a fortification plan.
a. Gaspard Monge b. Simeon Denis Poisson
c. Charles Babbage
d. Carl Friedrich Gauss
He summed the integers from 1 to 100 instantly by spotting that the sum was 50 pairs of numbers
each pair summing to 101 at the age of 7.
a. Gaspard Monge
b. Simeon Denis Poisson
c. Charles Babbage
d. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Known as the father of modern analysis, published a full version of his theory of inversion of
hyperelliptic integrals in his paper Theorie der Abelschen Functionen in Crelles Journal in 1856.
a. Karl Wierstrass
b. Evariste Galois
c. George Boole
d.David Hilbert

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