Mathematicians' Works
Timeline
Theorems
Meanings
Miscellaneous
100
Pythagoras of Samos
Who was the first person to prove the Pythagorean Theorem? or Who invented "Forms," (ideas or ideals that are perfect and cannot be recreated?)
100
The Pythagorean
Which group was first known to invent mathematics?
100
Fermat's Last Theorem
What theorem was Andrew Wiles famous for proving?
100
"Earth measurement"
What is the meaning of geometry in Ancient Greek?
100
Twin, cousin, and sexy primes
What are the three types of prime numbers that Terence Tao is studying? (Bonus: he is trying to figure out which is infinite.)
200
The Elements Hint: This is a book!
What was the name of Euclid's famous book used to teach geometry for many centuries?
200
The Indian and Arab mathematicians
Who is credited to expanding the study of mathematics to Europe through translation into Latin?
200
Pythagoras did not invent it.
Did Pythagoras originally invent the Pythagorean Theorem?
200
Perfect ideas or ideals that cannot be recreated by humans.
What is the meaning of "Forms?"
300
The concept of "zero"
What was Brahmagupta renowned for discovering?
300
4500 years ago
How many years ago do historians infer that ancient people began to study a subject similar to mathematics in Africa and Ancient Egypt?
300
Algebra
What was Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī's most famous mathematical discovery?
300
Binary system
What is the name of the system that the Chinese used with only the numbers 0 and 1? [Extra detail is awarded extra points]
300
Brunswick, Germany
Where was Gauss born?
400
UCLA
Terence Tao teaches as a professor at what major American University?
400
12th and 13th century AD
In what time period did the mathematician Fibonacci study in Algeria, and helped to translate Greek and Arabic works into Latin?
400
That any number is the sum of three triangular numbers
What did Gauss's theorem express?
400
It was renamed from Newtonian Mechanics to Hamiltonian Mechanics.
What was the name change made when Sir William Rowan Hamilton revised Newton's original ideas on mechanics?
400
Brahmagupta and Euclid
Which two mathematicians do historians not know very much about?
500
1948
What year did Irene Stegun and colleagues found the Computation Laboratory at the National Bureau of Standards?
500
6th century BC
What was the approximate time that Greek philosophers studied mathematics?
500
Quaternions and Bi-quaternions
What was Sir William Rowan Hamilton's work primarily focused on?
500
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500
University of Bologna
Where did Maria Gaetana Agnesi work and study?
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