30 Mathematics Quiz Questions with Answers – Online Math GK Quiz
1) When did Al-Khwarizmi write the popular book which introduced Indian numbers and zero to the Arab world?
Answer: A.D. 820
2) When were Indian mathematicians leaders in the world of mathematics?
Answer: 6″‘ to 10th century
3) When did the first printed book on mathematics appear?
Answer: 1478
4) When was the problem of “Seven Bridges of Konigsberg” posed?
Answer: 1736
5) When was the “Four color conjecture” every map on a flat surface or a sphere can be cultured without using more than four different colors – proved?
Answer: 1976
6) When this book was published, a timorous editor added a note claiming that the author had forwarded the revolutionary theory mentioned in it as a mathematical convenience and not as reality. Which is that book?
Answer: De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
7) Which book became popular as “The Red Monster” among not only mathematicians but also physicists, engineers, statisticians etc. as a handy reference?
Answer: The Handbook of Mathematical Functions
8) Who wrote the classic “On computable numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungs problem” that dealt with logic in calculations?
Answer: Alan Turing
9) “Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of wealth” is the first systematic treatise on the application of mathematics to economics. Who wrote it?
Answer: Augustin Cournot
10) Who wrote the classic entertainer “Mathematical Recreations and Essays”?
Answer: W. Rouse Ball
11) Who wrote the first systematic text on trigonometry?
Answer: Johannes Muller
12) Who wrote the classic “Logic Machines and Diagrams”?
Answer: Martina Gardner
13) Who is the author of “Mathematics for the Million”, a lucidly written book giving the origins and fundamentals of mathematics?
Answer: Lancelot Hogben
14) Who wrote the classic “Proofs and Refutations” in which he argued that mathematics is not infallible and is subject to correction and criticism?
Answer: Imre Lakatos
15) Who wrote the quaint book “Sand Reckoner” in which the universe was considered to be made up of sand grains and their count was made?
Answer: Archimedes
Basic Mathematics GK Quiz Questions with Answers
16) Who wrote “The Analyst” which attacked the then newly conceived calculus invented by Isaac Newton?
Answer: George Berkeley
17) This book was used as a school textbook in Persia for hundreds of years. Which is that book?
Answer: The Algebra of Omar Khayyam
18) Which journal gives up-to-date information on the current world literature in mathematics especially for researchers?
Answer: Mathematical Review
19) ‘Lady Luck’ is the title of a popular science book on:
Answer: The theory of probability
20) The oldest journal devoted chiefly to advanced mathematics is:
Answer: Journal de l’Ecole polytechnique
21) Which is the most unreadable mathematical classic?
Answer: Principia Mathematica
22) Both Rene Descartes and Pierre de Fermat are considered to be the founding father of this subject. What is the subject?
Answer: Analytical Geometry
23) Who is the founding father of modern analysis?
Answer: Augustin Cauchy
24) These two mathematicians founded the theory of probability. Who are they?
Answer: Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal
25) Who founded the Logistic School of Mathematics?
Answer: G.W. Leibniz
26) Who is the founding father of the Formalist School of Mathematics?
Answer: David Hilbert
27) Who founded the Intuitionist School of Mathematics?
Answer: L.E.J. Brouwer
28) Which mathematician invented a wheelbarrow?
Answer: Blaise Pascal
29) What is the structure of a DNA molecule?
Answer: Double helix
30) The shell of a snail has a shape resembling:
Answer: A logarithmic spiral