MATHEMATICS
By Dilip.M.Salwi
This quiz is not for teaching purposes.
1. Who called mathematics the 'Queen and Servant of the Sciences"?
Bertrand Russell
Eric Temple Bell
G. H. Hardy
A. N. Whithead
2. Which subject has its origin in the "measurement of the earth"?
Calculus
Trigonometry
Algebra
Geometry
3. Where is the term "mantissa" used?
Complex numbers
Graphs
Logarithms
Series
4. Which type of geometry is based on the assumtion or postulate that no two lines are ever parrallel?
Euclidean Geometry
Lobachevsky-Bolyai geometry
Riemannian geometry
Non Euclidean geometry
5. To whom did the basic idea of analytic geometry come in a dream?
Rene Decartes
Euclid
Hipparchus
Janos Bolyai
6. What is the 'mathematics of change'?
Statistics
Probability
7. Which subject is intimately associated with the term "frequency"?
Modern algebra
All
8. Which type of mathematics is used for the study of population?
Arithmetic
9. Which term is not associated with a circle?
Parameter
Circumference
Chord
Diameter
10. Which mathematical subject is associated with the game of chance?
Pobablity
11. Which theory is the basis of most of present day mathematics?
Game theory
Set theory
Number theory
Probability theory
12. Which paradox challenges the very foundations of the set theory?
Olber's paradox
Russell's paradox
Bell's paradox