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Question 1

Scientist who was born on Pi Day?

Answer 1

Albert Einstein

Question 2

Who discovered Pythagoras Theorem?

Answer 2

Pythagoras of Samos

Question 3

Who discovered the oldest document on Mathematics?

Answer 3

Alexander Henry Rhind

Question 4

When was the “Four Color Conjecture” every map on a flat surface or a sphere can be cultured without using more than four different colors – proved?

Answer 4

1976

Question 5

This mathematician’s original work on geometry was ignored in his lifetime and was recognized as a masterpiece two centuries later when a handmade copy of hid printed work was accidentally discovered among his pupil’s papers. Who was he?

Answer 5

Girard Desargues

Question 6

Every day one follows the numbers of this table. What is it?

Answer 6

Calendar

Question 7

Who wrote the witty and amusing “A Budget of Paradoxes”?

Answer 7

Augustus De Morgan

Question 8

When this book was published, a timorous editor added a note claiming that the author had forwarded the revolutionary theory mentioned in it as a mathematical convenience and not as reality. Which is that book?

Answer 8

De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium

Question 9

Who is the author of the classic “Men of Mathematics”?

Answer 9

Eric Temple Bell

Question 10

Sugar is occasionally served in the form of a

Answer 10

Cube

Question 11

Which book became popular as “The Red Monster” among not only mathematicians but also physicists, engineers, statisticians, etc. as a handy reference?

Answer 11

The Handbook of Mathematical Functions

Question 12

What is the Christmas Star known as?

Answer 12

Dodecagon

Question 13

Who wrote the classic “On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungs problem” that dealt with logic in calculations?

Answer 13

Alan Turing

Question 14

“Epicycles” were employed to explain the orbits of planets and the sun around the earth in the theory of the universe forwarded by?

Answer 14

Claudius Ptolemy

Question 15

Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth” is the first systematic treatise on the application of mathematics to economics. Who wrote it?

Answer 15

Antoine Augustine Cournot

Question 16

One’s score in an I.Q. test is known as ones?

Answer 16

Intelligence Quotient

Question 17

Who wrote the classic entertainer “Mathematical Recreations and Essays”?

Answer 17

W. W. Rouse Ball

Question 18

Who wrote the first systematic text on trigonometry?

Answer 18

Johannes Peter Müller

Question 19

When we have to go by bus, we have to remember this number:

Answer 19

Transport Number

Question 20

Who wrote the classic “Logic Machines and Diagrams”?

Answer 20

Martina Gardner

Question 21

Who is the author or “Mathematics for the Million”, a lucidly written book giving the origins and fundamentals of mathematics?

Answer 21

Lancelot Hogben

Question 22

What is brick called in geometrical terms?

Answer 22

Cuboid

Question 23

Who wrote the classic “Proofs and Refutations” in which we argued that mathematics is not infallible and is subject to correction and criticism?

Answer 23

Imre Lakatos

Question 24

Who wrote the first systematic text on trigonometry?

Answer 24

Johannes Müller

Question 25

Who wrote the quaint book "Sand Reckoner" in which the universe was considered to be made up of sand grains and their count was made?

Answer 25

Archimedes

Question 26

When numbers are assigned to a person on the basis of his performance in studies, they become?

Answer 26

Marks

Question 27

Who wrote, "The Analyst" which attacked the then newly conceived calculas invented by Isaac Newton?

Answer 27

George Berkeley

Question 28

Who wrote the classic "Logic Machines and Diagrams"?

Answer 28

Martina Gardner

Question 29

This book was used as a school textbook in Persia for hundreds of years. Which is that book?

Answer 29

The algebra of Omar Khayyam