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Maths GK Questions and Answers
1. Who is the Father of Mathematics?
Answer:
Archimedes
2. Who discovered Zero (0)?
Answer:
Aryabhatta, AD 458
Explanation: Aryabhatta invented zero but he didn't give any symbol for zero,
Brahmagupta was the first to give symbol for zero and rules to compute with zero.
3. The average of first 50 natural numbers?
Answer:
25.5
4. When is Pi Day celebrated around the world?
Answer:
March 14
5. The value of Pi?
Answer:
3.14159
6. Value of cos 360°?
Answer:
1
7. Angle greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees are called?
Answer:
Reflex Angles
8. Who discovered the laws of the lever and pulley?
Answer:
Archimedes
9. Scientist who was born on Pi Day?
Answer:
Albert Einstein
10. Who discovered Pythagoras Theorem?
Answer:
Pythagoras of Samos
11. Who discovered the Symbol Infinity "
∞
"?
Answer:
John Wallis
12. Father of Algebra?
Answer:
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Persian Mathematician)
13. Who discovered Fibonacci sequence?
Answer:
Leonardo Pisano Bigollo
14. First person to use the Greek letter pi (
π
) to denote the constant?
Answer:
William Jones in 1706
15. Who discovered Logarithms and the Decimal point?
Answer:
John Napier
16. Who invented the equals sign (=) ?
Answer:
Robert Recorde
17. Who invented Slide rule?
William Oughtred
18. Who invented Protractor?
Answer:
Joseph Huddart
19. Who discovered center of gravity?
Answer:
Archimedes
20. Where was Abacus invented?
Answer:
China
21. Who created the symbol 'e' ?
Answer:
Leonhard Euler
22. Which Greek Mathematician was killed by Romans during the capture of
Syracuse?
Answer:
Archimedes
23. Who developed an easy method to find out all the Prime Numbers?
Answer:
Eratosthenes
24. Euler's Formula?
Answer:
Euler discovered two Important formulas
1) F + V = E + 2
2) e
ix
= cos
x + i
sin
x
25. Father of Trigonometry?
Answer:
Hipparchus
26. Father of Science?
Answer:
Galileo Galilei
27. Who discovered Line Graph, Bar Chart, Circle Graph?
Answer:
William Playfair
28. Who discovered
∇
(delta)?
Answer:
William Rowan Hamilton
29. Who invented Boolean Algebra?
Answer:
George Boole in 1847
30. Who invented Unknown or variable quantities x, y, z ?
Answer:
René Descartes
31. Who discovered Graph Theory?
Answer:
Leonhard Euler
32. Value of Napier's constant 'e' ?
Answer:
e
≈
2.71828
33. Write the next number of the following Sequences 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,_?
Answer:
21
34. Who invented Unit Vectors i, j, k ?
Answer:
William Rowan Hamilton
35. Who created BODMAS rule?
Answer:
Achilles Reselfelt
36. Who discovered the Square Root symbol
√
?
Answer:
Christoph Rudolff
37. Who invented Statistical Graph?
Answer:
William Playfair
38. Who is considered as the Father of Calculus?
Answer:
Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz
39. Who is the Father of Analytic Geometry?
Answer:
René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat
40. Which numbers were believed to Promote Love?
Answer:
Amicable numbers
41. Who Developed Taylor series expansions of Trigonometric Functions?
Answer:
Madhava of Sangamagrama
42. Who discovered Law of gravity?
Answer:
Sir Isaac Newton
43. Who created " i " (
√
-1) as an Imaginary Number?
Answer:
Leonhard Euler
44. Who discovered Multiplication?
Answer:
William Oughtred
45. Father of Geometry?
Answer:
Euclid of Alexandria (Commonly known as Euclid)
46. Who constructed the first Trigonometric Table?
Answer:
Hipparchus
47. Who discovered Hyperbolic Sine and cosine "Sinh and Cosh"?
Answer:
Vincenzo Riccati
48. Mathematical device that has Beads?
Answer:
Abacus
49. How many Zeros are there in One Billion?
Answer:
9 (nine)
50. Who discovered Derivatives?
Answer:
Gottfried Leibniz
51. Who discovered Differential Equations dx ?
Answer:
Gottfried Leibniz
52. Who discovered Summation
∑
?
Answer:
Srinivasa Ramanujan
53. Who discovered Product
∏
?
Answer:
Carl Friedrich Gauss
54. Which Symbol did Karl Weierstrass Invent?
Answer:
|x|
55. What do we call people who has "Fear of Numbers" ?
Answer:
Numerophobia
56. Name of the symbol
∇
?
Answer:
Nabla
57. Who introduced the term "function" in Mathematics?
Answer:
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
58. Who introduced the notation for a function y = f(x)?
Answer:
Leonhard Euler
59. Name of the symbol
≡
?
Answer:
Equivalence Relation and Modulus
60. Name of the Symbol ( ) ?
Answer:
Parentheses
61. Name of the Symbol
⊥
?
Answer:
perpendicular
62. What is the other name of Multiplication Sign "X" ?
Answer:
Times Sign
63. Name of the Symbol
≜
?
Answer:
Equal by definition
64. Name of the Symbol
∑
?
Answer:
Sigma
65. Name of the Symbol
∏
?
Answer:
Capital pi
66. Name of the Symbol
φ
?
Answer:
Golden ratio
67. Name of the Symbol
⇒
?
Answer:
Implies
68. Name of the Symbol
∴
?
Answer:
Therefore
69. The total number of dots on a dice?
Answer:
21
70. What is the Number system of these letters V, X, L, D, M ?
Answer:
Roman Numerals
71. Who discovered empty set sign
∅
(nul)?
Answer:
André Weil
72. Roman Number of 40?
Answer:
XL
73. What Number that is twice the sum of their digits (other than zero)?
Answer:
18
74. Which is the only even Prime Number?
Answer:
2
75. Roman Number of 50?
Answer:
L
76. Roman Number of 60?
Answer:
LX
77. Roman Number of 70?
Answer:
LXX
78. Roman Number of 90?
Answer:
XC
79. Roman Number of 100?
Answer:
C
80. Find the missing number in the series 5, 10, 17, __, 37, 50, 65, 82?
Answer:
26
81. Which is the smallest Perfect Number?
Answer:
6
82. Who discovered + and – ?
Answer:
Johannes Widman
83. Who discovered intersection
∩
and union
∪
?
Answer:
Giuseppe Peano
84. What is the next Prime Number after 13?
Answer:
17
85. Which is the only Number that cannot be used as a Divisor?
Answer:
Zero
86. Who is known as the prince of Mathematics in India?
Answer:
Srinivasa Ramanujan
87. Who said the phrase "Number rules the Universe"?
Answer:
Pythagoras
88. Which number is Known as Ramanujan Number?
Answer:
1729
89. What is the name of the number system with base 2?
Answer:
Binary
90. How many seconds are there in one hour?
Answer:
3600 Seconds
91. Who discovered the identity sign
≡
(for congruence relation)?
Answer:
Carl Friedrich Gauss
92. Which number system does not have the symbol for zero?
Answer:
Roman Numerals
93. Who discovered Number Line?
Answer:
John Wallis
94. Who discovered strict inequality signs < and > ?
Answer:
Thomas Harriot
95. What number do we get when we multiply all of the numbers on a Telephone
Number Pad?
Answer:
Zero
96. Who discovered division sign ÷ ?
Answer:
Johann Rahn
97. Who discovered the
⌊
x
⌋
greatest integer
≤
x (floor) and
⌈
x
⌉
smallest integer
≥
x (ceiling)?
Answer:
Kenneth E. Iverson
98. What is the name for the longest side of a Right Angled Triangle?
Answer:
Hypotenuse
99. Which number does not have a Reciprocal?
Answer:
zero
100. Who discovered Mathematical Induction?
Answer:
Giovanni Vacca
