Who is known for his contributions to number theory, modular forms, and the “Ramanujan-Hardy” number?
A) Andrew Wiles
B) John Nash
C) Paul Erdős
D) Srinivasa Ramanujan
Answer: D) Srinivasa Ramanujan
This mathematician is famous for his work in cryptography and his role in breaking the Enigma code during WWII.
A) Alan Turing
B) Carl Friedrich Gauss
C) John von Neumann
D) Kurt Gödel
Answer: A) Alan Turing
Who developed the concept of fractals and is known for his groundbreaking work in chaos theory?
A) Benoit Mandelbrot
B) John Horton Conway
C) Roger Penrose
D) Douglas Hofstadter
Answer: A) Benoit Mandelbrot
This mathematician made significant contributions to game theory and won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
A) John Nash
B) Norbert Wiener
C) Claude Shannon
D) Georg Cantor
Answer: A) John Nash
Who developed the concept of the Turing machine, a theoretical model of computation?
A) Alan Turing
B) John von Neumann
C) Kurt Gödel
D) Claude Shannon
Answer: A) Alan Turing
This mathematician is known for his work in differential geometry and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem.
A) Carl Friedrich Gauss
B) Henri Poincaré
C) Évariste Galois
D) John Nash
Answer: A) Carl Friedrich Gauss
Who introduced the concept of “googol” and “googolplex” and is a famous mathematician?
A) John Nash
B) Claude Shannon
C) Kurt Gödel
D) Edward Kasner
Answer: D) Edward Kasner
This mathematician is known for his work in algebraic geometry and co-founding the Institute for Advanced Study.
A) Carl Friedrich Gauss
B) John von Neumann
C) Kurt Gödel
D) Hermann Weyl
Answer: D) Hermann Weyl
Who introduced the term “Boolean algebra” and made foundational contributions to symbolic logic?
A) George Boole
B) Claude Shannon
C) Alan Turing
D) John von Neumann
Answer: A) George Boole
This mathematician is known for his work in topology and the Poincaré conjecture.
A) Carl Friedrich Gauss
B) Henri Poincaré
C) Euclid
D) Leonhard Euler
Answer: B) Henri Poincaré
Who is famous for the “Four Color Theorem,” which states that any map can be colored with four colors without adjacent regions sharing the same color?
A) Paul Erdős
B) John Horton Conway
C) Ronald Graham
D) Kenneth Appel
Answer: D) Kenneth Appel
This mathematician is known for his work in graph theory and his development of the concept of a “chicken McNugget number.
A) Paul Erdős
B) John Horton Conway
C) Ronald Graham
D) Richard Guy
Answer: D) Richard Guy
Who introduced the concept of “linear programming” and won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his contributions?
A) John Nash
B) George Dantzig
C) Paul Erdős
D) John Horton Conway
Answer: B) George Dantzig
This mathematician is known for his work in algebraic geometry and the Hodge conjecture.
A) Henri Poincaré
B) Alexander Grothendieck
C) Évariste Galois
D) John Horton Conway
Answer: B) Alexander Grothendieck
Who formulated the “Central Limit Theorem” and made important contributions to probability theory?
A) John von Neumann
B) Carl Friedrich Gauss
C) George Dantzig
D) Norbert Wiener
Answer: B) Carl Friedrich Gauss
This mathematician is known for his work in mathematical logic and his development of “Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems.”
A) Kurt Gödel
B) Alan Turing
C) John Nash
D) George Boole
Answer: A) Kurt Gödel
Who is famous for his contributions to the theory of automata, formal languages, and information theory?
A) Claude Shannon
B) Alan Turing
C) John von Neumann
D) Norbert Wiener
Answer: A) Claude Shannon
This mathematician is known for his work in differential equations and the “Laplace Transform.”
A) Joseph Fourier
B) Carl Friedrich Gauss
C) John Nash
D) Norbert Wiener
Answer: A) Joseph Fourier
Who introduced the concept of “game theory” and made significant contributions to economic theory?
A) John Nash
B) Alan Turing
C) John von Neumann
D) Paul Erdős
Answer: C) John von Neumann
This mathematician is known for his work in set theory and the “Continuum Hypothesis.”
A) Georg Cantor
B) Kurt Gödel
C) Alan Turing
D) John von Neumann
Answer: A) Georg Cantor
Who is famous for his contributions to number theory, including Fermat’s Last Theorem?
A) Andrew Wiles
B) Pierre-Simon Laplace
C) John Nash
D) Norbert Wiener
Answer: A) Andrew Wiles
This mathematician is known for his work in algebraic geometry and the “Riemann-Roch theorem.”
A) Henri Poincaré
B) Alexander Grothendieck
C) Carl Friedrich Gauss
D) John von Neumann
Answer: B) Alexander Grothendieck
Who is famous for the “Nash Equilibrium” in game theory and his life story portrayed in the movie “A Beautiful Mind?
A) John Nash
B) Carl Friedrich Gauss
C) Kurt Gödel
D) Norbert Wiener
Answer: A) John Nash
This mathematician is known for his work in topology and the “Hairy Ball Theorem.”
A) Henri Poincaré
B) John Horton Conway
C) Évariste Galois
D) Leonhard Euler
Answer: A) Henri Poincaré
Who introduced the concept of “transfinite numbers” and made foundational contributions to set theory?
A) Georg Cantor
B) Kurt Gödel
C) Alan Turing
D) John von Neumann
Answer: A) Georg Cantor
This mathematician is known for his work in mathematical logic and the “Church-Turing thesis.”
A) Alonzo Church
B) John Horton Conway
C) Gösta Mittag-Leffler
D) Évariste Galois
Answer: A) Alonzo Church
Who is famous for his work in combinatorial mathematics and his development of the “Erdős number” concept?
A) Paul Erdős
B) John Horton Conway
C) Ronald Graham
D) Richard Guy
Answer: A) Paul Erdős
This mathematician is known for his work in topology and his development of the “Conway knot notation.”
A) Henri Poincaré
B) John Horton Conway
C) Évariste Galois
D) Leonhard Euler
Answer: B) John Horton Conway
Who formulated the “Turing test” and made foundational contributions to the theory of computation?
A) Alan Turing
B) John von Neumann
C) Kurt Gödel
D) Norbert Wiener
Answer: A) Alan Turing
This mathematician is known for his work in algebraic geometry and his development of the “Modular Function.”
A) Henri Poincaré
B) Alexander Grothendieck
C) Évariste Galois
D) Leonhard Euler
Answer: B) Alexander Grothendieck
Who is famous for his work in graph theory and his development of the “Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem”?
A) Paul Erdős
B) John Horton Conway
C) Ronald Graham
D) Richard Guy
Answer: C) Ronald Graham
This mathematician is known for his work in algebraic geometry and the “Mumford-Tate conjecture.”
A) Henri Poincaré
B) Alexander Grothendieck
C) Carl Friedrich Gauss
D) John von Neumann
Answer: B) Alexander Grothendieck
Who is famous for his contributions to mathematical logic, set theory, and the “Brouwer Fixed-Point Theorem”?
A) Kurt Gödel
B) Alonzo Church
C) Évariste Galois
D) Richard Dedekind
Answer: A) Kurt Gödel
This mathematician is known for his work in topology and his development of the “Conway’s Game of Life.”
A) Henri Poincaré
B) John Horton Conway
C) Évariste Galois
D) Leonhard Euler
Answer: B) John Horton Conway
Who introduced the concept of “recursive functions” and made foundational contributions to the theory of computation?
A) Alan Turing
B) John von Neumann
C) Kurt Gödel
D) Georg Cantor
Answer: A) Alan Turing
This mathematician is known for his work in algebraic geometry and the “Grothendieck–Serre correspondence.”
A) Henri Poincaré
B) Alexander Grothendieck
C) Carl Friedrich Gauss
D) John von Neumann
Answer: B) Alexander Grothendieck
Who is famous for his contributions to topology and the “Kneser conjecture” in combinatorial mathematics?
A) Paul Erdős
B) John Horton Conway
C) Ronald Graham
D) Richard Guy
Answer: C) Ronald Graham
This mathematician is known for his work in number theory and the “Gross-Zagier formula.”
A) Andrew Wiles
B) Pierre-Simon Laplace
C) John Nash
D) Norbert Wiener
Answer: A) Andrew Wiles
Who is famous for his work in combinatorial mathematics and his development of the “Erdős–Rényi model” for random graphs?
A) Paul Erdős
B) John Horton Conway
C) Ronald Graham
D) Paul Erdős
Answer: A) Paul Erdős
This mathematician is known for his work in algebraic geometry and the “Grothendieck–Hirzebruch–Riemann–Roch theorem.”
A) Henri Poincaré
B) Alexander Grothendieck
C) Carl Friedrich Gauss
D) John von Neumann
Answer: B) Alexander Grothendieck
Who introduced the concept of “quantum logic” and made significant contributions to quantum mechanics?
A) John von Neumann
B) Carl Friedrich Gauss
C) Richard Feynman
D) Norbert Wiener
Answer: A) John von Neumann
This mathematician is known for his work in differential equations and the “Navier-Stokes equations.”
A) Joseph Fourier
B) Carl Friedrich Gauss
C) Norbert Wiener
D) Leonhard Euler
Answer: C) Norbert Wiener
Who is famous for his contributions to number theory, including the development of the “AKS primality test”?
A) Andrew Wiles
B) Pierre-Simon Laplace
C) Manjul Bhargava
D) Norbert Wiener
Answer: C) Manjul Bhargava
This mathematician is known for his work in algebraic geometry and his development of the “Deligne’s theorem.”
A) Henri Poincaré
B) Alexander Grothendieck
C) Carl Friedrich Gauss
D) John von Neumann
Answer: B) Alexander Grothendieck
Who introduced the concept of “Elliptic curves” and made significant contributions to number theory?
A) Andrew Wiles
B) Carl Friedrich Gauss
C) John Horton Conway
D) Norbert Wiener
Answer: A) Andrew Wiles
This mathematician is known for his work in probability theory and his development of the “Wiener process.”
A) Joseph Fourier
B) Carl Friedrich Gauss
C) Norbert Wiener
D) Leonhard Euler
Answer: C) Norbert Wiener
Who is famous for his work in algebraic geometry and the “Hodge theory”?
A) Henri Poincaré
B) Alexander Grothendieck
C) Pierre-Simon Laplace
D) John von Neumann
Answer: B) Alexander Grothendieck
This mathematician is known for his work in number theory and his development of the “Bhargava cubes.”
A) Manjul Bhargava
B) Pierre-Simon Laplace
C) John Horton Conway
D) Leonhard Euler
Answer: A) Manjul Bhargava
Who is famous for his contributions to algebraic geometry and the “Fermat’s Last Theorem” proof?
A) Andrew Wiles
B) Alexander Grothendieck
C) John Horton Conway
D) Carl Friedrich Gauss
Answer: A) Andrew Wiles
This mathematician is known for his work in mathematical logic and his development of the “Hilbert’s tenth problem.”
A) Kurt Gödel
B) Alan Turing
C) David Hilbert
D) Georg Cantor
Answer: C) David Hilbert
