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The creator of calculus as we know it now was Euclid Gottfried Leibniz Albert Einstein Isaac Newton
The word "Algebra" comes from the title of a book in what language? Arabic Babylonian French Greek
Who proved that it is impossible to give an explicit system of axioms for all the properties of whole numbers? Georg Cantor Kurt Gödel Gottlob Frege Bertrand Russell
When and where was the sign = introduced? Ancient Greece Renaissance Italy Early Arabia Renaissance England
Carl Friedrich Gauss published Disquisitiones Arithmeticae in 1701 1801 1901 2001
Who was the first person to prove that pi is not a rational number (that is, not a fraction)? Leonhard Euler Charles Hermite Archimedes Johann Lambert
The credit for introducing the idea of proof from a system of axioms to mathematics is generally given to what people? The Indians The Chinese The Greeks The Vulcans
Who proved that the sum of the nth powers of two whole numbers cannot be the nth power of another whole number if n is bigger than 2? Pierre de Fermat Ramanujan Andrew Wiles Diophantus
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