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Famous Mathematicians - Statistics
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| (1643 - 1727) English mathematician who laid the groundwork for differential and integral calculus; most remembered for his formulation of the gravitation laws. | Isaac Newton | 87%
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| (578 - 505 BCE) Credited with the first formal proof of the relationship between the sides of a right triangle. | Pythagoras of Samos | 87%
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| (1707 - 1783) Discovered the natural base, e. | Leonhard Euler | 79%
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| (322-275 BCE) Wrote "The Elements" | Euclid of Alexandria | 77%
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| (1601-1665) Worked on number theory; most famous for his "Last" Theorem. | Pierre de Fermat | 67%
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| (1170-1250) Developed a recursive sequence of numbers by adding two numbers together to get the next number. | Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci | 64%
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| (1646-1716) German mathematician developed the present day notation of the derivative and integral. | Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz | 60%
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| (1777-1855) Discovered a method for finding the sum of consecutive integers beginning with 1 at age 8. | Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss | 59%
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| (1623 - 1662) Invented [his] Triangle used for binomial expansions and probability calculations. | Blaise Pascal | 58%
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| (1596-1650) Invented the xy-plane, creating analytic geometry. | Rene Descarte | 55%
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| (287-212 BCE) Used the Method of Exhaustion to approximate the are of a circle. | Archimedes | 50%
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| (1826 - 1866) Used [his] sums to find the are under a curve. | Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann | 48%
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| (1749 - 1827) Applied calculus to study the orbits of celestial bodies; also know for [his] transform. | Pierre-Simon Laplace | 35%
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| (1845 - 1918) Founded set theory and introduced the concept of infinite numbers. | Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor | 30%
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| (1789 - 1857) Pioneered the study of real analysis, complex anlysis, and permutation groups. | Augustin-Louis Cauchy | 23%
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| (1550 - 1617) Invented logarithms | John Napier | 19%
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| (790-850) Wrote the first book on Algebra in which we are given the words "algebra" and "algorithm". | Abu Ja'far Muhammed ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi | 15%
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| (1667 - 1754) Used trigonometric functions to represent complex numbers. | Abraham De Moivre | 11%
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| (1540 1603) Introduced the modern algebra notation of using letters to represent unknown quantities. | Francois Viete | 4%
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| (1323 - 1382) Mathematician credited with proving that the harmonic series diverges. | Nicole d'Oresme | 3%
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