Math's Greatest Minds

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1. Which mathematician proved the famous formula e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0? Leonhard Euler Abraham de Moivre Blaise Pascal Pierre de Fermat

2. Which mathematician had worked with number theory and claimed to have found that x^n + y^n = z^n has no positive integer solutions if n is greater than 2? Abraham de Moivre René Descartes Gilles Personne de Roberval Pierre de Fermat

3. Which mathematician had published "The Elements", and has influenced the study of geometry for around 2000 years? Thales Pythagoras Euclid Archimedes

4. Which mathematician had developed the "method of indivisibles" and published "Geometria Indivisibilis"? Marin Mersenne Evangelista Torricelli Vincenzo Viviani Bonaventura Cavalieri

5. Which mathematician had studied the involute of a circle, and used this knowledge to patent the first pendulum clock? Sir Christopher Wren René Descartes Christiaan Huygens Marin Mersenne

6. Which mathematician, at the age of 18, had found that "the number of primes less than or equal to n tends to infinity as n/(log_e n)", which is an elementary form proof of the Prime Number Theorem? Paul Erdos Joseph Louis François Bertrand Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky

7. Which mathematician had studied binomial coefficients, published a book on it, and had a "triangle" named after him? Blaise Pascal Pierre de Fermat Sir Isaac Newton Girolamo Cardano

8. Which mathematician is remembered for his theorem (cos x + i sin x)^n = (cos nx + i sin nx)? Leonhard Euler Abraham de Moivre Pierre de Fermat Blaise Pascal

9. Which mathematician was the first to factor out (2^67 - 1) using quadratic remainders? Frank Nelson Cole Marin Mersenne François Edouard Anatole Lucas Eugène Charles Catalan

10. Which mathematician's most famous work is a formula that can be used to find the area of a triangle with just the lengths of the sides? Euclid Heron Pythagoras Theodorus