Math Trivia Quiz 1

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1.  Who developed a mathematical Theory of the electron, and won a Nobel Prize for it in 1902?

A.   Karl Friedrich Gauss
B.   Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
C.   Rene Descarte
D.   Leonhard Euler
E.   None of These

2.  How do you correctly pronounce "Euler"?

A.   like "Yoo-Ler"
B.   like "Oil-ler"
C.   like "AY-oo-ler"

3.  Who were the two mathematicians that invented calculus?

A.   Leibniz and Laplace
B.   Gauss and Poincare
C.   Newton and Gauss
D.   Newton and Leibniz
E.   Fibonacci and Euler

4.  Who estimated Pi () to be around 355/113?

A.   Tsu Ch'ung Chi
B.   Pythagoras
C.   Euclid
D.   Euler
E.   Archimedes

5.  What is Pi (), exactly?

A.   the ratio of a circle's circumfrence over its radius
B.   the ratio of a circle's circumfrence over its diameter
C.   3.1415926
D.   the ratio of a circle's diameter over its radius
E.   None of These

6.  Who was the first to use "x" to represent an unknown varible in Algebra

A.   Descartes
B.   Viete
C.   Poincare
D.   Fourier
E.   None of These

7.  Which mathematician was a woman?

A.   Gödel
B.   Descartes
C.   Agnesi
D.   Fourier
E.   Mobius

8.  What do you call a two-dimensional surface that only has one side?

A.   Mobile Strip
B.   Mobius Strip
C.   Pythagorean Strip
D.   Euclidian Strip
E.   None of These

9.  Who wrote The Measurement of the Circle?

A.   Archimedes
B.   Euler
C.   Euclid
D.   Aristarcus

10.  For over 2000 years, every geometry textbook has been based on which work by Euclid?

A.   Principa Mathematica
B.   Principa Arithmetica
C.   The Elements
D.   On the Hypotheses which the Foundations of Geometry are based
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