Friday 18 January 2013

The Great Mathematicians

1. Indian astronomical scientist, who gave a table of trigonometric sine functions 
calling them 'jya' in sanscrit ?

a) Aryabhatta 1st         b) Aryabhatta 2nd
c) Brahmagupta          d) Bhaskar 2 nd

2. German mathematician, the cgs unit of magnetic flux density is named after him ?

a) Gauss                    b) Dirichlet
c) Abel                       d) Poincare

3. British math and geologist, who appointed as successor to Newton as lucasian 
professor of math in 1703 ?

a) Hardy                     b) William Whiston
c) Littlewood               d) Cauchy

4. German mathematician, who discovered hyper elliptic functions and applied his 
work in elliptic functions to number theory ?

a) Jacob Jacobi          b) Daniel Bernouli
c) Lagrange               d) Lefler

5. French mathematician, who developed a theory to explain the interaction between
electricity & magnetism ?

a) Celsius                  b) Fahrenheit
c) Ampere                 d) Fermat

6. Greek mathematician, who was the first to define parabola, hyperbola and ellipse
and wrote a book 'conics' ?

a) Apollonius              b) Thales
c) Hypatia                  d) Eratosthenes

7. British mathematician, who invented speedometer ?

a) Andrew wiles            b) Charles Babbage
c) Alan Turing               d) G H Hardy

8. Swiss mathematician, who discovered a simple mathematical formula, that gave the 
wavelengths of the spectral lines of Hydrogen- the 'Balmer Series' ?

a) Euler                        b) Johann Bernoulli
c) Jacob Bernoulli          d) Jakob Balmer

9. Swiss doctor wrote 'Hydrodynamica' deals with theory of statics and the motion 
of the fields ?

a) Daniel Bernoulli           b) Gabriel Cramer
c) Heinz Hopf                  d) Jakob Steiner

10. Swiss mathematician, who is the first to use 'g' to denote accelaration due to gravity ?

a) Paul Guldin               b) Jacob Amsler
c) Francois Sturm         d) Johann Bernoulli

11. German Astronomer, in 1838, he was the first man to calculate accurately the 
distance of a star from earth ?

a) Friedrich Bessel        b) Kepler
c) Elert Bode                d) Tobias Mayer

12. Author of 'Karna Kuthuhala', who introduced first the mathematical signs of 
minus and plus ?

a) Bhaskar-II                 b) Varahamihir
c) Bhaskar-I                  d) Aryabhatta-I

13. British matheamatician, whose book 'The laws of thought'(1854) is a famous
book in the study of logic ?

a) James Sylvester          b) De Morgan
c) George Boole              d) William Thomson

14. English mathematician modified Napier's logarithms by introducing the Base 10 ?

a) Briggs Henry              b) John Napier
c) Nicholas Mercator       d) North Whitehead

15. English mathematician, who was a founder & first president of Royal Society ?

a) William Brouncker           b) Sir Paul Nurse
c) Martin Rees                    d) Stephen Toope

16. Russia born german mathematician, who founded the transfinite set theory ?

a)  Grigori Perelman            b) Georg Cantor
c) Goldbach                        d) Thomas Bayes

17. French Mathematician, gave fully satisfactorily definitions of the fundamentally 
important concepts of limit and convergence ?

a) Cauchy                        b) Fermat
c) Pascal                         d) Descartes

18. French mathematician, also introduced the use of complex number into Trigonometry ?

a) Michel Chasles              b) Abraham De Moivre
c) Joseph Fourier               d) François Viète

19. British mathematician & quantum theorist, who shared nobel prize for physics 
with Schrodinger in 1933 ?

a) Paul Dirac                   b) Peter Higgs
c) Richard Feynman         d) Lady Ada Lovelace

20. Greek mathematician and geographer devised a technique called the 'Sieve' for
finding prime numbers ?

a) Euclid                            b) Eratosthenes
c) Pythagoras                    d) Archimedes

ANSWER-
1. a   2. a   3. b   4. a     5. c    6. a   7. b    8. d    9. a    10. d
11. a    12. a   13. c    14. a    15. a    16. b    17. a      18. b    19. a   20. b

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