ON THE THEMES:GEOMETRY, MATHEMATICS,

BRANCHES OF MATHEMATICS

Quiz 6Personalities

Pier FermaPier Ferma Rene DescartesRene Descartes

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

know today.

Blaise PascalBlaise Pascal Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton

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

Nicola TeslaNicola Tesla Gottfried LeibnizGottfried Leibniz

3.This German mathematician and philosopher was an outstanding

thinker who developed a method of computation called calculus.

ArchimedesArchimedes Eratosthenes of CyreneEratosthenes of Cyrene

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

PythagorasPythagoras Wilhelm RöntgenWilhelm 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 GreeceHypatia from Greece Hypatia from EgyptHypatia 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.

EuclidEuclid Galileo GalileiGalileo 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.

GalenGalen AristotleAristotle

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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