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

    Trigonometry

    Calculus

    Probability

7. Which subject is intimately associated with the term "frequency"?

    Modern algebra

    Geometry

    Statistics

    All

8. Which type of mathematics is used for the study of population?

    Trigonometry

    Statistics

    Arithmetic

    Calculus

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

    Statistics

    Calculus

    Arithmetic

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

    All