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Sexagesimal - The Sumerians were the first to use a sexagesimal number system in 3,200 BC. A base 60 number system is known as?

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


Elements - Copied and recopied over the centuries, 'Elements' first appeared in print in 1492.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


212 BC - Archimedes was killed when the Romans overran his hometown during the second Punic War.The great mathematician Archimedes died in....

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


Maya - Among other places, the Maya were located on the Yucatan peninsula in Central America.This civilization used a symbol that looks like a seashell to represent zero. Who were they?

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


4983894 - If a palindrome is made entirely out of ones, zeros, and eights, it will read the same upside-down.Which group of these numbers would be a palindrome?

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


Muhammad ibn Musa AlKhwarizmi - Muhammad was a mathematician teaching in Baghdad.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


Fibonacci sequence - Fibonacci a.k.a. Leonardo Pisano was an Italian mathematician.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


Mobius strip - German mathematician August Ferdinand Mobius introduced the concept in 1865.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


Fields Medals - Canadian mathematician John Fields funded the awards.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


What one learns - The Greek, Eratosthenes used logic and simple math to determine the circumference of the Earth 2000 years ago.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 one with 100 zero's after it - In 1940, Edward Kasner and James Newman published a book in which the googol was introduced.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


Differential and integral calculus - Computer ScienceIsaac 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


Differential and integral calculus - Computer ScienceIsaac 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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