ON THE THEMES:GEOMETRY, MATHEMATICS,

BRANCHES OF MATHEMATICS

Quiz 6Personalities

Pier Ferma Rene Descartes

1.This French philosopher and mathematician developed the science of geometry into the discipline that schoolchildren

know today.

Blaise Pascal Isaac Newton

2.This French brilliant mathematician and religious thinker invented the first digital calculator.

Nicola Tesla Gottfried Leibniz

3.This German mathematician and philosopher was an outstanding

thinker who developed a method of computation called calculus.

Archimedes Eratosthenes of Cyrene

4.This Greek mathematician is considered to be the father of geometry who discovered the value of pi.

Pythagoras Wilhelm Röntgen

5.This Greek mathematician and philosopher is best known for his formula for the proportions of the sides of a right-angled

triangle.

Hypatia from Greece Hypatia from Egypt

6.6. This Greek mathematician formed common curves: the circle,

the ellipse, the parabola, the hyperbola, by slicing a cone at different angels.

Euclid Galileo Galilei

7.This Greek mathematician worked in Egypt 2,300 years ago and is famous for writing Elements, a series of 13 books that contained geometric principles and theorems that were to form the basis of

mathematics for more then 2000 years.

Galen Aristotle

8.This famous Greek philosopher cataloged the known species of animals and plants, believing they were made of four elements: earth,

water, fire, and air.

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Geometry, Mathematics, Branches of Mathematics

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