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Name the Mathematician - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 96 times
- The average score is 12 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Inventor of calculus | Isaac Newton / Gottfried Leibniz | 97%
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| a² = b² + c² | Pythagoras | 95%
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| The 'father of geometry ' and author of 'Elements' | Euclid | 91%
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| The transcendental number 2.71828... is named after this mathematician | Leonhard Euler | 91%
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| The proof of his last theorem did not fit in the margin | Pierre de Fermat | 84%
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| Over 100 topics in mathematics are named after this German mathematician within number theory, geometry, analysis, algebra and statistics | Carl Gauss | 75%
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| The triangle bearing his name facilitates the determination of binomial coefficients | Blaise Pascal | 71%
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| Protagonist of 2015 film 'The Man who Knew Infinity' who made major contributions to mathematics despite limited formal training | Srinivasa Ramanujan | 70%
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| His hypothesis is considered one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics and implies results about the distribution of prime numbers | Bernhard Riemann | 68%
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| Groups with a commutative operation are named after this mathematician | Niels Henrik Abel | 54%
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| As a result of his theory, it was found that a general formula for the solution of quintic equations cannot be found | Évariste Galois | 53%
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| A discrete probability distribution with its mean equal to its standard deviation bears his name | Denis Poisson | 47%
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| Her first theorem concerns the derivation of conserved quantities from symmetries of a system | Emmy Noether | 43%
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| Irish mathematician who reformulated Newtonian mechanics and invented quaternions | William Rowan Hamilton | 43%
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| Discovered logarithms | John Napier | 42%
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| A founder of calculus of variations, also reformulated Newtonian mechanics | Joseph-Louis Lagrange | 41%
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| 2006 Fields Medal winner for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory | Terence Tao | 38%
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| The 'father of information theory' | Claude Shannon | 24%
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| Discovered a pattern of tiles which could cover an infinite plane without ever repeating, and now bears his name | Roger Penrose | 21%
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| Prime numbers p such that 2p+1 is also prime are named after this mathematician | Sophie Germain | 16%
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