From Zero to Infinity: Maths Milestones

What this quiz asks

• Which Greek mathematician, often called the 'father of geometry', wrote the Elements?
• The ancient Romans had a numeral for zero.
• Which two mathematicians fought a bitter dispute over who had invented calculus first?
• Can pi (π) be written exactly as a fraction of two whole numbers?
• Which Italian mathematician's 1202 book Liber Abaci helped spread Hindu-Arabic numerals across Europe?
• The coordinate system with x and y axes, which links algebra to geometry, is named after which French thinker?
• Which English mathematician introduced this symbol for infinity, in 1655?
• The word 'algorithm' comes from the name of which 9th-century Persian mathematician?
• The rule we call Pythagoras' theorem was already in use in Babylon more than 1,000 years before Pythagoras was born.
• Select ALL of these mathematicians who were women.
• In 1994, which famous problem did Andrew Wiles finally prove, some 350 years after it was first stated?
• Leonhard Euler's 1736 solution to the Seven Bridges of Königsberg puzzle is seen as the birth of which field?
• In what year did the Scottish mathematician John Napier publish his invention of logarithms?
• Which Indian mathematician set out the first known written rules for calculating with zero, in AD 628?
• To pin down pi, Archimedes trapped a circle between two regular polygons with how many sides each?
• Order these mathematicians by when they were born, earliest first.
• Which Welsh mathematician first used the Greek letter π for the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, in 1706?
• Select ALL of these that are among the seven Millennium Prize Problems announced in 2000.
• Georg Cantor proved that one of these infinite sets is 'bigger' than the set of whole numbers. Which one?
• What did Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems of 1931 show?