Famous Mathematicians Trivia Questions

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1. 1.This ancient Greek founded a secretive brotherhood and is honored by the formula relating a right triangle's three sides.

   • Pythagoras
   • Euclid
   • Thales
   • Archimedes

2. 2.Working in Alexandria around 300 BCE, this 'father of geometry' organized math into thirteen books titled the Elements.

   • Euclid
   • Archimedes
   • Apollonius
   • Pythagoras

3. 3.Legend says this Syracusan leapt from his bath shouting 'Eureka!' after discovering a principle of buoyancy.

   • Eratosthenes
   • Hero of Alexandria
   • Apollonius
   • Archimedes

4. 4.This Englishman co-invented calculus, formulated laws of motion, and supposedly mused on gravity after watching an apple fall.

   • Gottfried Leibniz
   • Isaac Newton
   • Robert Hooke
   • Edmond Halley

5. 5.This French lawyer claimed in a book's margin to possess a marvelous proof, too large to fit, of a number-theory conjecture.

   • Blaise Pascal
   • René Descartes
   • Marin Mersenne
   • Pierre de Fermat

6. 6.The most prolific mathematician in history, this Swiss master kept producing results even after going completely blind.

   • Daniel Bernoulli
   • Joseph-Louis Lagrange
   • Leonhard Euler
   • Johann Bernoulli

7. 7.Nicknamed the 'Prince of Mathematicians,' this German prodigy reputedly summed 1 to 100 instantly as a schoolboy.

   • Bernhard Riemann
   • Pierre-Simon Laplace
   • Carl Friedrich Gauss
   • Leonhard Euler

8. 8.This French prodigy built an early mechanical calculator and lent his name to a triangle of binomial coefficients.

   • Pierre de Fermat
   • Blaise Pascal
   • René Descartes
   • Marin Mersenne

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