100+ Maths General Knowledge Questions And Answers

100+ Math General Knowledge Questions And Answers Math GK Questions And Answers 1. Who is the Father of Mathematics? Answer: Archimedes 2. Who discovered Zero (0)? Answer: Aryabhatta, 3. What is the average of the first 50 natural numbers? Answer: 25.5 4. When is Pi Day celebrated around the world? Answer: March 14 5. The value of Pi? Answer: 3.14159 6. Value of cos 360°? Answer: 1 7. Angle greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees are called? Answer: Reflex Angles 8. Who discovered the laws of the lever and pulley? Answer: Archimedes 9. Scientist who was born on Pi Day? Answer: Albert Einstein 10. Who discovered Pythagoras Theorem? Answer: Pythagoras of Samos 11. Who discovered the Symbol Infinity “∞”? Answer: John Wallis 12. Father of Algebra? Answer: Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Persian Mathematician) 13. Who discovered Fibonacci Sequence? Answer: Leonardo Pisano Bigollo 14. First person to use the Greek letter pi (π) to denote the constant? Answer: William Jones in 1706 15. Who discovered Logarithms and the Decimal point? Answer: John Napier 16. Who invented the equals sign (=) ? Answer: Robert Recorde 17. Who invented the Slide rule? Answer: William Oughtred 18. Who invented Protractor? Answer: Joseph Huddart 19. Who discovered the center of gravity? Answer: Archimedes 20. Where was Abacus invented? Answer: China Related: Area And Perimeter Multiple Choice Questions (CBSE & ICSE) 21. Who created the symbol ‘e’ ? Answer: Leonhard Euler 22. Which Greek Mathematician was killed by Romans during the capture of Syracuse? Answer: Archimedes 23. Who developed an easy method to find out all the Prime Numbers? Answer: Eratosthenes 24. Euler’s Formula? Answer: Euler discovered two Important formulas 1) F + V = E + 2 2) e ix = cos x + i sin x 25. Father of Trigonometry? Answer: Hipparchus 26. Father of Science? Answer: Galileo Galilei 27. Who discovered Line Graph, Bar Chart, Circle Graph? Answer: William Playfair 28. Who discovered ∇ (delta)? Answer: William Rowan Hamilton 29. Who invented Boolean Algebra? Answer: George Boole in 1847 30. Who invented Unknown or variable quantities x, y, z? Answer: René Descartes 31. Who discovered Graph Theory? Answer: Leonhard Euler 32. Value of Napier’s constant ‘e’ ? Answer: e ≈ 2.71828 33. Write the next number of the following Sequences 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,_? Answer: 21 34. Who invented Unit Vectors i, j, k ? Answer: William Rowan Hamilton 35. Who created the BODMAS rule? Answer: Achilles Reselfelt 36. Who discovered the Square Root symbol √ ? Answer: Christoph Rudolf 37. Who invented Statistical Graph? Answer: William Playfair 38. Who is considered as the Father of Calculus? Answer: Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz 39. Who is the Father of Analytic Geometry? Answer: René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat 40. Which numbers were believed to Promote Love? Answer: Amicable numbers Related: Simple Interest And Compound Interest Multiple Choice Questions 41. Who Developed Taylor series expansions of Trigonometric Functions? Answer: Madhava of Sangamagrama 42. Who discovered the Law of gravity? Answer: Sir Isaac Newton 43. Who created ” i ” (√-1) as an Imaginary Number? Answer: Leonhard Euler 44. Who discovered Multiplication? Answer: William Oughtred 45. Father of Geometry? Answer: Euclid of Alexandria (Commonly known as Euclid) 46. Who constructed the first Trigonometric Table? Answer: Hipparchus 47. Who discovered Hyperbolic Sine and cosine “Sinh and Cosh”? Answer: Vincenzo Riccati 48. Mathematical device that has Beads? Answer: Abacus 49. How many Zeros are there in One Billion? Answer: 9 (nine) 50. Who discovered Derivatives? Answer: Gottfried Leibniz Read More GK on Mathematics 51. Who discovered Differential Equations dx ? Answer: Gottfried Leibniz 52. Who discovered Summation ∑ ? Answer: Srinivasa Ramanujan 53. Who discovered the Product sign ∏ ? Answer: Carl Friedrich Gauss 54. Which Symbol did Karl Weierstrass Invent? Answer: |x| 55. What do we call people who have a “Fear of Numbers” ? Answer: Numerophobia 56. Name of the symbol ∇ ? Answer: Nabla 57. Who introduced the term “function” in Mathematics? Answer: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 58. Who introduced the notation for a function y = f(x)? Answer: Leonhard Euler 59. Name of the symbol ≡ ? Answer: Equivalence Relation and Modulus 60. Name of the Symbol ( ) ? Answer: Parentheses Related: Time And Distance Multiple Choice Questions (Boost Your IQ) 61. Name of the Symbol ⊥ ? Answer: Perpendicular 62. What is the other name of Multiplication Sign “X” ? Answer: Times Sign 63. Name of the Symbol ≜ ? Answer: Equal by definition 64. Name of the Symbol ∑ ? Answer: Sigma 65. Name of the Symbol ∏ ? Answer: Capital Pi 66. Name of the Symbol φ ? Answer: Golden ratio 67. Name of the Symbol ⇒ ? Answer: Implies 68. Name of the Symbol ∴ ? Answer: Therefore 69. The total number of dots on a dice? Answer: 21 70. What is the Number system of these letters V, X, L, D, M ? Answer: Roman Numerals 71. Who discovered the empty set sign ∅ (null)? Answer: André Weil 72. Roman Number of 40? Answer: XL 73. What Number that is twice the sum of their digits (other than zero)? Answer: 18 74. Which is the only even Prime Number? Answer: 2 75. Roman Number of 50? Answer: L 76. Roman Number of 60? Answer: LX 77. Roman Number of 70? Answer: LXX 78. Roman Number of 90? Answer: XC 79. Roman Number of 100? Answer: C 80. Find the missing number in the series 5, 10, 17, _, 37, 50, 65, 82? Answer: 26 Related: Exponents And Powers Multiple Choice Questions (CBSE & ICSE) 81. Which is the smallest Perfect Number? Answer: 6 82. Who discovered + and – ? Answer: Johannes Widman 83. Who discovered intersection ∩ and union ∪ ? Answer: Giuseppe Peano 84. What is the next Prime Number after 13? Answer: 17 85. Which is the only number that cannot be used as a Divisor? Answer: Zero 86. Who is known as the prince of Mathematics in India? Answer: Srinivasa Ramanujan 87. Who said the phrase “Number rules the Universe”? Answer: Pythagoras 88. Which number is Known as Ramanujan-Hardy Number? Answer: 1729 89. What is the name of the number system with base 2? Answer: Binary 90. How many seconds are there in one hour? Answer: 3600 Seconds 91. Who discovered the identity sign ≡ (for congruence relation)? Answer: Carl Friedrich Gauss 92. Which number system does not have the symbol for zero? Answer: Roman Numerals 93. Who discovered Number Line? Answer: John Wallis 94. Who discovered strict inequality signs < and > ? Answer: Thomas Harriot 95. What number do we get when we multiply all of the numbers on a Telephone Number Pad? Answer: Zero 96. Who discovered the division sign ÷ ? Answer: Johann Rahn 97. Who discovered the ⌊x⌋ greatest integer ≤ x (floor) and ⌈x⌉ smallest integer ≥ x (ceiling)? Answer: Kenneth E. Iverson 98. What is the name for the longest side of a Right Angled Triangle? Answer: Hypotenuse 99. Which number does not have a Reciprocal? Answer: zero 100. Who discovered Mathematical Induction? Answer: Giovanni Vacca 101. What Phobia is the fear of Numbers? Answer: Arithmophobia 102. How many zeros are there in One Trillion? Answer: 12 Zeros (1,000,000,000,000) 103. What comes after a Trillion? Answer: Quadrillion 104. Name the Polygon that has 15 Sides? Answer: Pentadecagon