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Notable figures in mathematics history. Play Famous Mathematicians trivia solo to sharpen your knowledge, or challenge a friend head-to-head in Trivia Tango — every question comes with an explanation so you learn as you play. Questions span every level, from easy warm-ups to expert-level stumpers, so there's a real challenge here however much you already know.
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This ancient Greek founded a secretive brotherhood and is honored by the formula relating a right triangle's three sides.
Difficulty: Easy- Pythagoras
- Euclid
- Thales
- Archimedes
This Alexandrian's book on equations with whole-number solutions inspired a Frenchman's infamous margin note centuries later.
Difficulty: Medium- Diophantus
- Pappus
- Hero of Alexandria
- Apollonius
This Norwegian, briefly jailed as a suspected spy, built a theory of continuous symmetry groups now central to physics.
Difficulty: Hard- Élie Cartan
- Sophus Lie
- Felix Klein
- Niels Henrik Abel
Working in Alexandria around 300 BCE, this 'father of geometry' organized math into thirteen books titled the Elements.
Difficulty: Easy- Euclid
- Archimedes
- Apollonius
- Pythagoras
This Greek geometer literally wrote the book on conic sections, naming the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola.
Difficulty: Medium- Euclid
- Archimedes
- Apollonius of Perga
- Pappus
This Frenchman proved that a simple closed loop divides the plane into an inside and an outside.
Difficulty: Hard- Camille Jordan
- Henri Poincaré
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- Henri Lebesgue
Legend says this Syracusan leapt from his bath shouting 'Eureka!' after discovering a principle of buoyancy.
Difficulty: Easy- Eratosthenes
- Hero of Alexandria
- Apollonius
- Archimedes
This Alexandrian's Earth-centered model, detailed in the Almagest, dominated astronomy for fourteen centuries.
Difficulty: Medium- Hipparchus
- Aristarchus of Samos
- Ptolemy
- Eudoxus
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