Mathematics Quiz

                                                     FIRST MATHEMATICIANS


1. Name the Mathematician who presented the decimal point in the present form for the first time in a book?

  a) Pierre Simon Laplace
  b) John Napier
  c) Simon Steven
  d) Auguste Comte
Ans : b) John Napier 

2. Who among the following made the first attempt  to explain the behaviour of gases mathematically with respect to changing pressure and temperatre?

   a)Gregor Mendel
   b)Charles Darvin
   c)Danil Bernouli
   d)John Napire
Ans :  c)Danil Bernouli

3.Who among the following is considered to be the first modern mathematician?
   a)Isaac Barrow
   b)William Oughtred
   c)Thomas Malthus
   d)Rene Descartes
Ans : d)Rene Descartes.


4.Who was the first mathematician to apply mathematics to understand economic problems?
   a)William Stanly Jevons
   b)William Oughtred
   c)Alfred Marshall
   d)Blaise Pascal
Ans : c)Alfred Marshall

5. Name the first mathematician to apply statistics to investigations in biology?
   a) Francis Galton
   b)Gregor Mendel
   c)Robert Boyle
   d)Charles Darvin
Ans : a) Francis Galton

6.Who built the first electronic calculating  machine?
   a)J.Presper Eckert
   b)John V.Atanasoff
   c)Alfredo Pareto
   d)Robert Boyle
Ans : b)John V.Atanasoff

7.Which of  the following is the first person  to give stage performances for his mental calculating machines?
  a)John Maynard Keynes
  b)Thomas Malthus
  c)Zerah Colburn
  d)Shakuntala Devi
Ans : c)Zerah Colburn

8.Of the following mathematicians, tell who first introduced formal language of symbols in mathematics with the aim of making proof more rigorous?
   a)Christopher Clavis
   b)Gottlob Frege
   c)Geoge Boole
   d)Leonhard Euler
Ans : b)Gottlob Frege.