Which ancient Greek is the theorem about right triangles named after?
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Pythagoras
A secretive school formed around him.
💡 Did you know? Whether he found the theorem himself is unclear.
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Which Greek, author of “The Elements”, is called the father of geometry?
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Euclid
“The Elements” shaped teaching for over 2,000 years.
💡 Did you know? He built geometry on a few axioms.
Which scholar from Syracuse reputedly cried “Eureka!” and approximated pi?
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Archimedes
He discovered buoyancy in the bath.
💡 Did you know? “Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth.”
Which Englishman developed calculus and the law of gravitation?
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Isaac Newton
Legend says a falling apple inspired him.
💡 Did you know? He feuded with Leibniz over inventing calculus.
Which German polymath developed calculus alongside Newton and the binary system?
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
We still use his integral and derivative symbols.
💡 Did you know? Binary is the basis of all computers.
Which German “prince of mathematicians” featured on the old 10-mark note with his bell curve?
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
As a child he summed 1 to 100 in seconds.
💡 Did you know? The normal distribution is the Gaussian curve.
Which French philosopher invented the rectangular coordinate system?
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René Descartes
Cartesian coordinates are named after him.
💡 Did you know? “I think, therefore I am.”
Which Italian is the sequence 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 … named after?
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Fibonacci
Each number is the sum of the previous two.
💡 Did you know? The sequence appears often in nature.
Which Persian scholar gave “algebra” and “algorithm” their names?
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al-Khwarizmi
“Algebra” comes from his book's title.
💡 Did you know? “Algorithm” is the Latinised form of his name.
Which Frenchman studied probability and lent his name to a triangle of numbers?
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Blaise Pascal
He built a calculating machine at just 19.
💡 Did you know? The pressure unit pascal is named after him.
Which Englishwoman is regarded as history's first programmer?
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Ada Lovelace
She wrote a program for Babbage's planned engine.
💡 Did you know? A programming language, “Ada”, is named after her.
Which logician proved the limits of mathematics with his incompleteness theorems?
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Kurt Gödel
He showed every system has unprovable true statements.
💡 Did you know? He was a close friend of Albert Einstein.
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