HISTORY OF MATH

Question 1

Who wrote the book “Plane Loci”?

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Apollonius

Question 2

Sphaerica

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Menelaus

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Numerical system of mesopotamia

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Sexagesimal

Question 4

Chinese-Japanese

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Multiplicative grouping

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Who first introduced the term pole in projective geometry

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FJ Servois

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Author of Mathematical Collection

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Pappus

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Added 1-100

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CF Gauss

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Planets move in elliptical orbit

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Kepler

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Ars Magna

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Cardano

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Elements

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Euclid

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Law of Large Numbers

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Jacob Bernouli

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Groundbreaking (dividing rods)

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John Napier

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French/ Projective/ modern geom/ non-greek

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Girard Desarques

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Russian/ proved Bertrand’s conjecture

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Chebyshev

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First astronomer to use telescope

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Galilei

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Defined probability x/p

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Cardano

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Math is Queen of Science

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Gauss

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Modulus symbol

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Gauss

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Father of Logic

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Aristotle

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Protractor

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Huddart

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Complex numbers, polar

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De Moivre

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Introduced number 0

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Brahmagupta

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Used based 60

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Babylonian

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Arithmetica

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Diophantine

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Who introduced the abbreviations: cos, sin, tan?

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Albert Gerard

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Homologous

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Poncelet

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Transversal

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Carnot

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Analytical method for construction problems

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Plato

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Mediator

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Neuberg

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Circumscription Quadrilateral

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Jordanus

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Greek word Math

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Mathema

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Orthocentric points, polar

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Longchamps

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Simultaneous Equation

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Cramer

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Logic into mathematics

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Boole

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Infinity symbol

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John Wallis

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Indivisibility

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Cavalieri

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Common logarithm

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Briggs

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Almagest

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Ptolemy

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Attempted to classify curves according to equations

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Descartes

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Ten thousand sexdicillion, 1 followed by 100 zeroes

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Googol

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Biggest prime number in 2018

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M77232917

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Italian, Renaissance, solved ancient problems of mathematics, cubic equations

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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

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Omar Khayyam

Question 44

Studied higer plane curves, difference between the volume of the frustum of a solid revolution and volume of cylinder of the same height

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Colin Maclaurin

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Chinese math book, nine chapters on math art

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Jiuzhang Suanshu

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Quipo to encode numbers, and a counting board called YUPANA

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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

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Gottfried Leibnitz

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Pyramid

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Thales

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First major historian of math

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Eudemus

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Quadratrix

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Hippias

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Principle of calculus; became lecturer at 19

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Lagrange

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Coordinate geometry

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Oresme

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Periodic, abellian, elliptical function; father of modern analysis

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Karl Weierstrass

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De triangulis omnimudis; trigo & astronomy

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Regiomentus

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Extinct mesoamerican culture; vigesimal

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Mayans