A brief, but not easy, quiz on the history of mathematics

Please tell me your name (don't worry, your results won't go on your permanent record):

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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