History of mathematics

History of mathematics

QUIZ


Task 1. Write down an overview of the history of mathematics focusing on the following topics:

- mathematical achievements of the period in question
- famous mathematicians and their work


Task 2. Answer the following questions.

Who discovered the correct formula for the volume of a pyramid?
Who discovered that the areas of crescent-shaped figures bounded by arcs of circles are equal to areas of certain triangles?
Whose name, incidentally, is the source of the word algorithm, and the title of one of his books is the source of the word algebra?
Which discovery did the Italian mathematician Gerolamo Cardano publish in 1545? What was the title of his work?
What numeration system do the earliest Egyptian texts, composed about 1800 BC, reveal?
What does a sexagesimal system refer to? Who used it?
Who are the three scientists whose work led to the invention of the programmable digital computer? Which century/centuries did they work in?
What is a papyrus? What problems do they deal with?
What are tablets?
When was non-Euclidean geometry discovered? Who was it discovered by first? Who was it rediscovered by?