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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Inventor of calculus	Isaac Newton / Gottfried Leibniz	100%
a² = b² + c²	Pythagoras	97%
The 'father of geometry ' and author of 'Elements'	Euclid	91%
The transcendental number 2.71828... is named after this mathematician	Leonhard Euler	91%
The proof of his last theorem did not fit in the margin	Pierre de Fermat	81%
The triangle bearing his name facilitates the determination of binomial coefficients	Blaise Pascal	69%
Over 100 topics in mathematics are named after this German mathematician within number theory, geometry, analysis, algebra and statistics	Carl Gauss	66%
Protagonist of 2015 film 'The Man who Knew Infinity' who made major contributions to mathematics despite limited formal training	Srinivasa Ramanujan	66%
His hypothesis is considered one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics and implies results about the distribution of prime numbers	Bernhard Riemann	56%
Irish mathematician who reformulated Newtonian mechanics and invented quaternions	William Rowan Hamilton	53%
As a result of his theory, it was found that a general formula for the solution of quintic equations cannot be found	Évariste Galois	50%
A discrete probability distribution with its mean equal to its standard deviation bears his name	Denis Poisson	47%
Discovered logarithms	John Napier	47%
A founder of calculus of variations, also reformulated Newtonian mechanics	Joseph-Louis Lagrange	47%
Groups with a commutative operation are named after this mathematician	Niels Henrik Abel	47%
2006 Fields Medal winner for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory	Terence Tao	38%
Her first theorem concerns the derivation of conserved quantities from symmetries of a system	Emmy Noether	31%
The 'father of information theory'	Claude Shannon	28%
Discovered a pattern of tiles which could cover an infinite plane without ever repeating, and now bears his name	Roger Penrose	28%
Prime numbers p such that 2p+1 is also prime are named after this mathematician	Sophie Germain	19%