Statistics for Great Mathematicians

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  • This quiz has been taken 387 times
  • The average score is 9 of 14

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HintAnswer% Correct
British creater of calculus and discoverer of gravity.Isaac Newton
94%
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ...Leonardo `Bigollo' Pisano (Fibonacci)
88%
Often cited as the greatest mathematician ever. This German mathematician invented Graph Theory and discovered "e".Leonhard Euler
88%
Ancient Greek. The square of the hypotenuse is equel to the sum of the squares of the two other sides.Pythagoras of Samos
88%
Greek mathematician famed for geometric proofs and use of axioms.Euclid
79%
French bureaucrat and administrator famed for a margin note sparking generations of mathematical intrigue.Pierre de Fermat
78%
French philosopher, mathematician, and writer. Invented the system of geometry associating a points with numbers.René Déscartes
68%
Prince of Mathematicians.Carl Friedrich Gauss
66%
Gay British mathematician, famed for cracking the Enigma at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.Alan Mathison Turing
65%
All non-trivial zeros of this German mathematicians funtion have a real half of 1/2, or so the 4th Millenium Prive claims.Bernhard Riemann
56%
Living British mathematician, proved the "Last Theorem" of the above. Employed by the University of Oxford.Andrew Wiles
55%
German mathematician set list of 23 problems in 1900.David Hilbert
44%
"Mr. Why." Einstein said that he had remained at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study merely "to have the privilege of walking home with [this mathematician]."Kurt Gödel
19%
"Father of Algebra." Number Theorist who allowed equations to have real, non-intiger solutions.Diophantus of Alexandria
10%

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