Ancient History
They invented the First Numeral System
Who are the Babylonians?
He is the Father of Logic
Who is Aristotle?
He is the Father of Algebra
Who is Diophantus?
She is considered the first woman mathematician
Who is Hypatia?
Our current number system is "based" on our total number of fingers.
What is Base 10?
Most math symbols weren’t invented until this century
What is the 16th?
He invented Coordinate System, aka x/y coordinate plane
Who is Rene Descartes?
He invented the Fraction bar as division
Who is Al-hassar?
Charles Babbage would never have "invented" the computer without her.
Who is Ada Byron?
(or Ada Lovelace or Lady Lovelace)
Most math historians agree that our initial number system started with this.
What is 1?
The Egyptians used lotus flowers to represent this
What is 1000?
Helge von Koch is given credit for this fractal shape
What is the Snowflake?
This was the age of Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr. when he attended U of Chicago.
What is 13?
fyi--African American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician.
In 1958, she became the first African American female engineer to work at NASA.
Who is Mary Jackson?
Not commonly known, the symbol for division has an actual name.
What is an obelus?
Early Babylonians developed a way to tell time using this base
What is 60?
These two men are given credit for inventing Calculus?
Who are Issac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz?
He measured the length of a year as 365.2421986 days
Who is Omar Khayyam?
The first woman of mathematics died strangely
What is Cut to pieces with shells?
In this year, the United States passed the Metric Act to legally protect the use of the metric system in commerce from lawsuit.
When was 1866?
The earliest history of math come from here
What are Mesopotamia and Egypt?
In 1631, he invented greater than > and less than < symbols
Who is Thomas Harriot?
He defined zero and is given credit for inventing numbers
Who is Brahmagupta?
She is the only woman in history to win the Fields Medal.
Who is Maryam Mirzakhani?
Septuagintillion has a LOT of zeros.
How many is 213?