Home > NAQT > Quizzes > NAQT Mathematicians
NAQT Mathematicians
Fast practice, instant feedback. Timer auto-submits when time’s up.
Avg score: 82% Most missed: “A kind of logic that deals with concepts such as possibility, necessity, belief,…”
NAQT Mathematicians
Time left 00:00
25 Questions

1. He and Tesla are the namesakes of units of magnetic field.

2. Found the ratios between the surface areas and volumes of a sphere and a circumscribed cylinder

3. The Normal Distribution (bell curve) also called

4. Things only appear to interact due to God's pre-established harmony. He posited that the universe is made up of 'windowless' simple substances that do not affect each other.

5. the weight displaced by a body in a fluid is equal to the buoyant force on it

6. requested a 17-sided polygon inscribed on his grave stone after he proved it could be constructed. He names the cgs (C-G-S) unit for magnetic field.

7. Typically, these actions are only performed with a straightedge and compass - curvature or Gaussian curvature - quantity typically denoted kappa, which measures how much a surface deviates from flatness.

8. IMA, ______________ does not exist because it ignores friction. It is based on the effort distance/load distance both to the fulcrum) Input distance over the output distance

9. In his 'Discourse on Method' he wrote

10. Used by Wiles in proving Fermat's Last Theorem

11. In 'The Passions of the Soul,' he described _____ now known as emotions

12. Godel's theorem applies to _________ theories.

13. Founded graph theory by his solution to the Seven Bridges of Konigsberg Problem

14. Certain theories will always contain results which are true but not provable in the theory

15. Euclid's 5th Postulate, his ________ postulate, is equivalent to ________ Axiom (postulate)

16. Leibniz believed the universe as being composed of irreducibly simple units called ______

17. famous for his last theorem, scribbled in the margin of a book and not proven until 1997

18. the number of elements in a set or group as a property of that grouping/set

19. Playfair's axiom can be used instead of the fifth postulate of Euclid (the _________ postulate): It is equivalent to Euclid's parallel postulate in the context of Euclidean geometry and was named after the Scottish mathematician John Playfair.

20. Descartes was a major proponent of this philosophical position, which states that the mind and body are two separate entities.

21. invented binary numbers

22. The cgs (C-G-S) unit for magnetic field (magnetic flux density), while the SI unit for magnetic field is the Tesla, (T). One T = 10^4 gauss

23. Author of the Monadology - presented himself as Theophilus in a refutation of Locke in his New Essays of Human Understanding. Thinker with Samuel Clarke, is the namesake of a law stating objects with all the same properties must be identical; the identity of indiscernibles. Monad obsessed author of Theodicy . Asserted that the Principle of Sufficient Reason means that this is the 'best of all possible worlds'; He drew harsh criticism from Voltaire, who satirized him as Dr. Pangloss in Candide

24. devised most modern calculus notation, including the integral symbol and the use of d to indicate a differential

25. A number system that extends the complex numbers.