Math Trivia Questions III

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A base 60 number system is known as?

       a. Sexagesimal
       b. Hexadecimal
       c. Sixasimal
       d. Septadecimal


In 300 BC Euclid, an Egyptian teacher put together a popular textbook, which summarized elementary mathematics. The book was known as?

       a. Elements
       b. Elementary mathematics
       c. Simple math
       d. Math for kids


The great mathematician Archimedes died in....

       a. 212 BC
       b. 146 BC
       c. 309 BC
       d. 268 BC


This civilization used a symbol that looks like a seashell to represent zero. Who were they?

       a. Maya
       b. Sumerians
       c. Aztec
       d. Inca


Which group of these numbers would be a palindrome?

       a. 4983894
       b. 56789
       c. 12
       d. 3517


In 830 AD, a book that covered the basics of the branch of mathematics known as Algebra was written. The author was...

       a. Leonardo Pisano
       b. Muhammad ibn Musa AlKhwarizmi
       c. Robert Recorde
       d. Hypatia


This series of numbers - 1,1,2,3,5,8,13 is known as...

       a. Fibonacci sequence
       b. Ziegler sequence
       c. Douctte sequence
       d. Uta sequence


A surface that has only one side and only one boundary component is known as a?

       a. Dipole
       b. Mobius strip
       c. Rhombus
       d. Tetrahedral


In 1936, the first international medals for mathematical distinction are awarded. They were known as....

       a. Math Medals
       b. Kasner Medals
       c. Fields Medals
       d. Archimedes Medals


The word mathematics comes from a Greek word meaning?

       a. What one learns
       b. To count
       c. Love of numbers
       d. Difficult to understand


A googol is a number with?

       a. A one with 100 zero's after it
       b. A one with 10 zero's after it
       c. A one with 1000 zero's after it
       d. A one with 10000 zero's after it


Isaac Newton shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of which branch of Mathematics?

       a. Euclidean geometry
       b. Differential and integral calculus
       c. Algebra
       d. Computability theory


Isaac Newton shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of which branch of Mathematics?

       a. Euclidean geometry
       b. Differential and integral calculus
       c. Algebra
       d. Computability theory




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