Internet Questions

 

Give the ANSWER to the question and the URL where you found it.

 

It should look something like this:

 

Q. What can you find about the software program QuasiTiler?

 

           Answer:

                 QuasiTiler draws Penrose Tilings and their generalizations.  It is a program which is available from the Geometry Center.

                 http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/apps/quasitiler/about.html

 

 

 

1. Who developed a mathematical theory of the electron, and won the Nobel Prize for it in 1902?

 

     A.  Karl Friedrich Gauss

     B.  Hendrik Antoon Lorrentz

     C.  Rene Descartes

     D.  Leonhard Euler

 

2.   How do you correctly pronounce “Euler”?

    

     A.  “Yoo-ler”

     B.  “Oil-ler”

     C.  “Ay-oo-ler”

 

3.   Who were the two mathematicians that invented calculus?

    

     A.  Liebniz and Laplace

     B.  Gauss and Poincare

     C.  Newton and Leibniz

     D.  Fibonacci and Euler

 

4.  Who estimated Pi (p) to be around 355/113

    

     A.  Tsu Ch’ung Chi

     B.  Pythagoras

     C.  Euclid

     D.  Archimedes

 

5.  What is Pi (p) exactly?

    

     A.  The ratio of a circle’s circumference over its radius

     B.  The ratio of a circle’s circumference over its diameter

     C.  3.1415926

     D.  The ration of a circle’s diameter over its radius

     E.   None of these

 

6. Who was the first to use “x” to represent an unknown variable in Algebra

    

     A.  Descartes

     B.  Viete

     C.  Poincare

     D.  Fourier

     E.  None of these

 

7.  Which mathematician was a woman?

    

     A.  Godel

     B.  Descartes

     C.  Agnesi

     D.  Fourier

     E.  Mobius

 

8.  What do you call a two dimensional surface that only has one side?

    

     A.  Mobile Strip

     B.  Mobius Strip

     C.  Pythagorean Strip

     D.  Euclidian Strip

     E.  None of these

 

9    Who wrote The Measurement of the Circle?

    

     A.  Archimedes

     B.  Euler

     C.  Euclid

     D.  Aristarcus

 

10.  For over 2000 years, every geometry textbook has been based on which work by Euclid?

    

     A.  Principa Mathematica

     B.  Principa Arithmetica

     C.  The Elements

     D.  Hypotheses of the Foundations of Geometry

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