Name that Mathematician
This mathematician wrote The Elements.
Euclid
This postulate states "Parallel lines are everywhere equidistant"
Equidistance Postulate
The 2 legs of a triangle are length 3 and 4. What is the length of the hypotenuse?
Euclid discovered these two types of numbers.
These were the people who, in the early years of math, who had the job to solve problems.
Scribes
This mathematician contributed the quadrature of the lune.
Hippocrates
This postulate states "The sum of the angles of a triangle is two right angles"
The Triangle Postulate
This is the greatest common denominator of 96 and 120.
24
This is the number of books in Euclid's elements.
13
This is what early numerical writings were used for.
To be able to count things that were produced
This mathematician proved unequivocally that the quadrature of the circle was an impossibility.
Ferdinand Lindemann
This postulate states "Through a point not on a given line, there can be drawn only one line parallel to the given line."
Playfair's Postulate
The area of a circle is 50. What's the radius of that circle?
3.99
Rather than relying on algebra, Euclid proved a^2+b^2=c^2 using this subcategory of math.
Geometry
This is what early numerical writings were used for.
Multiplicity and Space
This mathematician is considered the first true mathematician.
Thales of Miletus
This was Euclid's most controversial postulate.
The parallel postulate.
This is the number of times this polynomial intersects the x-axis : x^2-8x+15=0
2 times
This young man from Illinois took great inspiration from Euclid.
Abraham Lincoln
This was the first civilization that actually sought to answer the question of why, and try to prove critical relationships in mathematics.
This mathematician brought the Hindu-Arabic math system to Europe.
Leonardo Fibonacci
Which one of these below are not similar to Postulate 5 from Euclid’s Elements:
(A). Proclus’ axiom
(B) Equidistant postulate
(C) The triangle postulate
(D) Linear Pair postulate
(D) Linear Pair postulate
This is how you would express 7/8 in ancient fraction form.
½ + ⅓ + 1/24
This is what makes Euclid's mathematics and proofs so revolutionary.
His axiomatic approach to proofs; it stopped the possibility of circular arguments and it was important so that it could be known what would happen if basic tenants were removed
This is what kind of number is the sum of its proper divisors.
Perfect.