Mathematics & Logic

Rigorous Dive into Mathematics' Historic Depths

Confront challenging trivia on pivotal, lesser-known moments in math evolution across millennia.

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Which Chinese mathematician calculated pi using a 96-gon, bounding it between 3.1415926 and 3.1415927 around 480 AD?
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Carl Friedrich Gauss's 1799 doctoral thesis offered the first fully rigorous proof of which key result?
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The Bakhshali manuscript, with the earliest decimal zero placeholder, dates to around 225-383 AD from which area?
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Around 1070 AD, which scholar solved all cubic equations geometrically in his algebra treatise?
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Pierre de Fermat noted his Last Theorem in 1637 margin of which ancient text?
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Which English mathematician first computed pi to 100 decimal places in 1706 using arctangent series?
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C. 1800 BC Babylonian clay tablet Plimpton 322 lists values for what trigonometric precursors?
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Rigorous Dive into Mathematics' Historic Depths

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Which Chinese mathematician calculated pi using a 96-gon, bounding it between 3.1415926 and 3.1415927 around 480 AD?

Carl Friedrich Gauss's 1799 doctoral thesis offered the first fully rigorous proof of which key result?

The Bakhshali manuscript, with the earliest decimal zero placeholder, dates to around 225-383 AD from which area?

Around 1070 AD, which scholar solved all cubic equations geometrically in his algebra treatise?

Pierre de Fermat noted his Last Theorem in 1637 margin of which ancient text?

Which English mathematician first computed pi to 100 decimal places in 1706 using arctangent series?

C. 1800 BC Babylonian clay tablet Plimpton 322 lists values for what trigonometric precursors?

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