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Maths/Maths History Quiz

Quiz mainly about mathematicians and what they were involved with.
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Which mathematician "Cracked" the enigma code
Alan Turing
Which triangle related theorem is written as: a² + b² = c²
Pythagoras theorem
What is the gaussian distribution more commonly known as
Normal/Bell curve
Who is known as the father of geometry
Euclid
What sequence is defined F(n) = F(n-1) +F(n-2) ,F(0) = 1,F(1) =1
Fibonacci Sequence
Which sequence of numbers is similar to the above but F(0)=2,F(1)=1
Lucas Sequence
Whose identity is e^(iπ) + 1 = 0
Leonhard Euler
Who has a infinitely large hotel named after them
David Hilbert
Which Greek mathematician from Syracuse gives his name to a spiral with equal spacing between successive turns
Archimedes
Who is known for developing the idea of cardinality of sets
Georg Cantor
What is the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways also more commonly known as Ramanujan's number or the taxi cab number
1729
Who's name is given to differentiating under the integral sign method
Gottfried Leibniz/Richard Feynman
Who solved Fermat's last theorem
Andrew Wiles
Who discovered the binomial theorem
Isaac Newton
Who proved that 1+1=2 in their book Principia Mathematica
Bertrand Russell
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