MATHEMATICIANS

1. He invented a method of determining the optimal

values of a linear function subject to certain constraints.
This method is know as linear programming. Who is he?

ANS: GEORGE DANTZIG

2. An 18th century mathematecian who invented
an analytical machine that can tabulate values
of any function and print the results.

ANS: CHARLES BABBAGE

3. 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?

ANS: JACOB BERNOULI

4. He has been described as the greatest
“might have been” in the history of
Mathematics

ANS: BLAISE PASCAL

5. 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 was he?

ANS: George Dantzig

6. He was a 16th-century mathematician, who was the first to define that the probability of
an
event to happen is the quotient of the number of favorable outcomes and the number of all
outcomes. Who was he?

ANS: Girolamo Cardano

7. The first to discover “zero”.

ANS: INDIAN
8. He was mostly remembered for his formula for( cos 𝑥 + 𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑥)*, which was important in
the
early development of the theory of complex numbers and for predicting the day of his own
death.

ANS: Abraham de Moivre

9. He achieved real fame when he submitted a paper to the Institute solving one of Fermat’s
claims
on polygonal numbers made to Mersenne. He also wrote the memoir on definite integrals that
later became the basis of his theory of complex functions.
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ANS: Augustin Cauchy

10. Italian Mathematician during the Renaissance period who
was credited for solving one of the
outstanding ancient problems of mathematics, cubic equations.

ANS: Scipione del Ferro

11. A Russian Mathematician in the 19th century who would instead develop geometry
without
Euclid’s fifth postulate and whose achievement exhibits the development of non- Euclidean
Geometry

ANS: Nikolai Lobachevsky

12. A Greek mathematician who remembered for his prime
number sieve

ANS: Eratosthenes
13. He was the mathematician who proposed basic descriptions of a point, a line and shapes.
He
also discovered that square root of two is an irrational number and that there were infinitely
many prime numbers.

ANS: Euclid
14. Known as the father of modern analysis during 19th century who also devised tests for
the
convergence and contributed to the theory of periodic functions, Abelian functions, elliptic
functions, etc.

ANS: Karl Wierstrass

 15. An 18th century mathematician who enunciated the
principles of the Calculus of variations and
became a lecturer in the Royal Artillery School at the age of 19

ANS: Luis Lagrange

16. He proved his famous “Basis Theorem” as he worked on invariant theory and challenged
mathematicians to solve fundamental questions that led to his famous speech “the
Problems of
Mathematics”.

ANS: David Hilbert

17. A “grand” Russian mathematician who gave the basis for applying the
theory of probability to
statistical data, worked on number of prime numbers not exceeding a given
number, and
proved Bertrand’s conjecture in 1850.

ANS: Patnuti Chebyshev

18. A mathematician of medieval ages who invented a type of
coordinate geometry by finding the
logical equivalence between tabulating values and graphing them.

ANS: Nicole Oresme

19. rich mathematician in France who invented a
new, non-Greek way of doing geometry, now
called “projective” or “modern geometry”.

ANS: Girard Desarques

20. 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.

ANS: Gottfried Leibnitz

21. Archimedes proved, among many other
geometrical results, that the volume of a sphere
is two-thirds the volume of a circumscribed
cylinder. This he considered his most significant
accomplishments, requesting that a
representation of a cylinder circumscribing a
sphere be inscribed on his tomb.

ANS: ARCHIMEDES OF SYRACUSE

22. A 19th century mathematician who added the
integers from 1 to 100 within seconds by a flash
of
mathematical insights.

ANS: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss

22. A 19th century mathematician who added the
integers from 1 to 100 within seconds by a flash
of
mathematical insights.

ANS: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss

He measured the length of the year as 365.2421986
days. He was well known for inventing the method of
solving cubic equations by intersecting a parabola with
a circle and for Fitzgerald’s popular translation of
Rubaiyat.
-Omar Khayyam
One of the earliest cities of the world built
in India and was built to carefully planned
and tessellations.
-Indus
He did notable work in Geometry, particularly studying
higher plane curves. 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 as frustum.
-Colin Maclaurin
An extinct Mesoamerican culture with surviving
treatise on astronomy called Dresden Codex
and used vigesimal number system.
-Mayans
It is the famous Chinese Mathematics book of all
time which is also called Nine Chapters on
Mathematical Art.
-Jiuzhang Suanshu or Suàn shù shū
A Bernoulli who considered the function 𝑦 =
𝑥^x. and investigated series using the method of
integration by parts.
-Johann Bernoulli
The FIRST mathematician to attempt to classify
according to the types of equations that produce
them and also made contributions to the theory
of equations.
-Rene Descartes
He was the writer of set theory and was first to
appreciate the value of one-to-one
correspondence for set theory.
-Georg Philip Cantor
He wrote De Triangulus Omnimodis, a
systematic account of methods for solving
triangles, and made important contributions to
Trigonometry and Astronomy.
-Regiomontanus
 His greatest contributions include such
groundbreaking texts in invention of divining
rods used as multiplication tables.
-John Napier
This century came to be known as the Age of
Scientific Revolution which saw an
unprecedented
explosion of mathematical and scientific ideas
across Europe.
-17th century
It is a period prior to people kept written
records.
-prehistory
An 18th century mathematician who invented
an analytical machine that can tabulate the
values of any function and print the results.
-Charles Babbage
To whom the Greeks inherited their
mathematical basis?
-babylonians
People in Early Civilization who used Quipo to
encode the numerical details and a counting
board, called YUPANA, to solve mathematical
problems.
-Incans
A 17th century French mathematician,
philosopher, and scientist who was honored by
having Cartesian coordinate system. His rule of
signs is also a commonly used method in
modern Mathematics.
-Rene Descartes
He was considered as the father of differential
geometry who introduced geometrie descriptive
now known as orthographic projection
-Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse
Who laid the foundations for differential and
integral Calculus?
-Sir Isaac Newton
Who introduced topographical methods into
complex function theory and examined the zeta
function (s) = (1/ns) = (1 – p-s)-1 which resulted
to one of the most important of the unsolved
problems f Mathematics?
-Bernhard Riemann
16th century who proposed the “Apollonian
Problem” (drawing a circle to touch 3 given circles)
and introduced the first systematic algebraic
notation in his book “In Artem Analyticam Isagoge”
(Introduction to the Analytic Art)
-Francois Viete
A Bernoulli who won in Paris Academy on 1725
because of his designed of an hour glass to be
used at sea and published Mathematical
exercises in 1724 which consisted of four topics.
-Daniel Bernoulli
An Italian mathematician best known today by his
principle “the volume of two objects are
equal if the areas of their corresponding cross-
sections are in all cases equal” and was
responsible for introducing logarithms as a
computational tool in Italy.
-Bonaventura Cavalieri
• Cavalieri Principle: the volume of two objects
are equal if the areas of their corresponding
cross-sections are in all cases equal