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