HISTORY OF MATH Flashcards

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Who wrote the book “Plane Loci”?

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Apollonius

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2
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Sphaerica

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Menelaus

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3
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Numerical system of mesopotamia

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Sexagesimal

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4
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Chinese-Japanese

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Multiplicative grouping

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5
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Who first introduced the term pole in projective geometry

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FJ Servois

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6
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Author of Mathematical Collection

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Pappus

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7
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Added 1-100

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CF Gauss

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8
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Planets move in elliptical orbit

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Kepler

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9
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Ars Magna

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Cardano

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10
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Elements

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Euclid

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11
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Law of Large Numbers

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Jacob Bernouli

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12
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Groundbreaking (dividing rods)

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John Napier

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13
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French/ Projective/ modern geom/ non-greek

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Girard Desarques

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14
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Russian/ proved Bertrand’s conjecture

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Chebyshev

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15
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First astronomer to use telescope

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Galilei

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16
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Defined probability x/p

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Cardano

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17
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Math is Queen of Science

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Gauss

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18
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Modulus symbol

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Gauss

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19
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Father of Logic

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Aristotle

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20
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Protractor

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Huddart

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21
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Complex numbers, polar

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De Moivre

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22
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Introduced number 0

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Brahmagupta

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23
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Used based 60

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Babylonian

24
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Arithmetica

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Diophantine

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Who introduced the abbreviations: cos, sin, tan?
Albert Gerard
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Homologous
Poncelet
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Transversal
Carnot
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Analytical method for construction problems
Plato
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Mediator
Neuberg
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Circumscription Quadrilateral
Jordanus
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Greek word Math
Mathema
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Orthocentric points, polar
Longchamps
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Simultaneous Equation
Cramer
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Logic into mathematics
Boole
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Infinity symbol
John Wallis
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Indivisibility
Cavalieri
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Common logarithm
Briggs
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Almagest
Ptolemy
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Attempted to classify curves according to equations
Descartes
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Ten thousand sexdicillion, 1 followed by 100 zeroes
Googol
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Biggest prime number in 2018
M77232917
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Italian, Renaissance, solved ancient problems of mathematics, cubic equations
Scipione del Ferro
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Measured length of the year as 365.24 days. Invented methods of solving cubic equations by intersecting a parabola with a circle and for Fitzgerald's popular translation of Rubaival
Omar Khayyam
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Studied higer plane curves, difference between the volume of the frustum of a solid revolution and volume of cylinder of the same height
Colin Maclaurin
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Chinese math book, nine chapters on math art
Jiuzhang Suanshu
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Quipo to encode numbers, and a counting board called YUPANA
Incans
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Considered as genius. Math, Philo, Theology, Law, Diplomacy, Politics, Physics. He also developed basic notations of his version of the Calculus and perfected binary system of arithmetic
Gottfried Leibnitz
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Pyramid
Thales
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First major historian of math
Eudemus
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Quadratrix
Hippias
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Principle of calculus; became lecturer at 19
Lagrange
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Coordinate geometry
Oresme
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Periodic, abellian, elliptical function; father of modern analysis
Karl Weierstrass
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De triangulis omnimudis; trigo & astronomy
Regiomentus
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Extinct mesoamerican culture; vigesimal
Mayans