2nd Page Flashcards

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Who invented Unit Vectors i, j, k?

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William Rowan Hamilton

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Who created the BODMAS rule?

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Achilles Reselfelt

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3
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Who discovered the Square Root symbol √?

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Christoph Rudolff

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Who invented Statistical Graph?

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William Playfair

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Who is considered as the Father of Calculus?

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Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz

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Who is the Father of Analytic Geometry?

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René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat

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Which numbers were believed to Promote Love?

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Amicable Numbers

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Who developed Taylor Series Expansions of Trigonometric Functions?

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Madhava of Sangamagrama

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Who discovered Multiplication?

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William Oughtred

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Who constructed the first Trigonometric Table?

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Hipparchus

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Who discovered Hyperbolic Sine and Cosine “Sinh and Cosh”?

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Vincenzo Riccati

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12
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Mathematical device that has beads?

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Abacus

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Who discovered Derivatives?

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Gottfried Leibniz

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Who discovered Differential Equations dx?

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Gottfried Leibniz

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Who discovered Differential Equations dx?

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Gottfried Leibnix

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16
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Who discovered Summation Σ?

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Srinivasa Ramanujan

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Who discovered the Product Sign ∏?

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Which symbol did Karl Weierstrass invent?

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What do we call people who have a “Fear of Numbers”?

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Numerophobia

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Name of the symbol ∇?

21
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Who introduced the term “function” in Mathematics?

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Who introduced the notation for a function y = f(x)?

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Leonhard Euler

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Name of the symbol ≡?

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Equivalence Relation and Modulus

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Who discovered the empty set sign ∅ (null)?

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André Weil

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Who discovered + and -?
Johannes Widman
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Who discovered intersection ∩ and union ∪?
Giuseppe Peano
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Who is known as the prince of Mathematics in India?
Srinivasa Ramanujan
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Who said the phrase "Number rules the Universe"?
Pythagoras
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Which number is known as Ramanujan Hardy Number?
1729
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Who discovered the identity sign ≡ (for congruence relation)?
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Who discovered Number Line?
John Wallis
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Who discovered strict inequality signs < and >?
Thomas Harriot
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Who discovered the division sign ÷?
Johann Rahn
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Who discovered the |x| greatest ineger ≤ x (floor) and [x] smallest integer ≥ x (ceiling)?
Kenneth E. Iverson
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What is the name for the longest side of a Right Angled Triangle?
Hypotenuse
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What phobia is the fear of numbers?
Arithmophobia
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Who discovered Mathematical Induction?
Giovanni Vacca
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Which number does not have a reciprocal?
Zero
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Who discovered Zero (0)?
Aryabhatta, A.D. 458