Manalili, Joel Hans Luis A.

BSMA 1-1

Correspondence Mode LONG QUIZ

TEST I
Famous Mathematician and their contributions.
1.) Archimedes - The greatest scholar of the ancient era, Archimedes made phenomenal
contribution in the field of mathematics. His works include finding various computation
techniques to determine volume and area of several shapes, including the conic section.

2.) Euclid - Euclid, the father of Geometry, wrote the book “Euclid’s Elements” that is
considered to be the greatest piece of historical works in mathematics. The book is divided
into 13 parts and in it, Euclid has discussed in details about geometry (what is now called
Euclidean geometry). His works are also well-known in the fields of spherical geometry, conic
sections, and number theory.

3.) Aryabhatta - Aryabhatta, the greatest Indian scholar in the field of math, has been famous
for his theorems on astronomical bodies that have been found to be very accurate in terms of
modern calculations. “Aryabhatiya”, his only work to have survived has given the world
innumerable theorems and research subjects. His two other major contributions are the
introduction of zero to the world and calculating the approximate value of pi. His works are also
spread in fields, like algebra, arithmetic, trigonometry.

4.) Ramanujam - Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar, the greatest Indian mathematician of 20th
century, contributed immensely in fields like number theory, mathematical analysis, string
theory, and crystallography. His genius has been admired by some greatest contemporaries of
his time. He is hailed to be one of the most famous in the field of number theory. Although he
lived for a short span of 32 years, he compiled nearly 3900 phenomenal results that leave
even the best mathematical brains of today in sheer awe.

5.) Rene Descartes - The French philosopher and scholar, Rene Descartes, was well-known for
his method of expressing geometric shapes in the form of algebraic equation. It was because of
Rene Descartes that we got introduced to the beautiful branch of co-ordinate geometry. The
Cartesian coordinates, in fact, refer to his name. Besides this, Rene has contributed significantly
in the field of optics and energy conservation.

6.) Carl F. Gauss - Carl F. Gauss, a German expert, known as Princeps mathematicorum
meaning “the Prince of Mathematicians” or “the foremost of mathematicians,” was a child
prodigy and a genius. Carl F. Gauss made path-breaking contributions in fields like set theory,
statistics, differential analysis, geophysics, electrostatics, number theory, and astronomy. He
proved the fundamental theorem of Algebra and also contributed to number theory.

7.) Blaise Pascal - Blaise Pascal, a French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist,
contributed in several areas of mathematics, but he is widely known for Pascal’s triangle.
He invented the first mechanical adding machine in the year 1642. The unit of atmospheric
pressure Pascal (Pa) has been named in his honor. He also contributed to the field of
computers, and the programming language Pascal was named after him, in 1972.

8.) Pythagoras - The Greek philosopher, known as the ‘father of numbers,’ is famous for the
discovery of Pythagorean theorem formula, which states that in a right-angled triangle, the square
of the hypotenuse (z), is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, x and y
– that is, x2 + y2 = z2.

9.) Isaac Newton - Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest contributors in the field of maths
and physics. His works are spread in almost every field. He developed Calculus, both differential
and integral, that are still the most important aspects of higher mathematics. Using Calculus,
he made it easier to find the area bounded by closed curves. In physics, his most world-
changing work was the discovery of existence of gravitational force in our surrounding.

10.) Benjamin Banneker - A child prodigy, a watch designer, and an intellectual in maths,
Banneker discovered many puzzles in fields of trigonometry. He was a genius in logarithms
and used them extensively in trigonometry.

11.) Hipparchus - A Greek mathematician and astronomer, he measured the earth-moon

distance accurately, founded the mathematical discipline of trigonometry, and his
combinatorics work was unequalled until 1870. Hipparchus discovered the precession of the
equinoxes and observed the appearance of a new star – a nova.

12.) Muhhamad Ibn Musa Al-Kharizmi - Muhammad al-Khwarizmi developed the concept of
algebra by generating a new method for solving linear and quadratic equations. His
revolutionary technique began by putting the equations in one of six standard forms where b
and c were both positive integers.

13.) Georg Cantor – German mathematician who founded set theory and introduced the
mathematically meaningful concept of transfinite numbers, indefinitely large but distinct from
one another.

14.) Thomas Bayes – Bayesian analysis, a method of statistical inference (named for English
mathematician Thomas Bayes) that allows one to combine prior information about a
population parameter with evidence from information contained in a sample to guide the
statistical inference process.

15.) Ada Lovelace – Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace, was an English
mathematician and writer, and is often considered to be the first computer programmer.
Lovelace was the first to recognize the full potential of a ‘computing machine,’ suggesting it
had applications beyond pure calculations.

16.) James Maxwell – In addition to his work on electromagnetism, Maxwell also contributed to
eight other scientific spheres: geometrical optics, kinetic theory, thermodynamics,
viscoelasticity, bridge structures, control theory, dimensional analysis and the theory of
Saturn’s rings.

17.) Pierre-Simon Laplace – Pierre-Simon Laplace was a prominent French mathematical

physicist and astronomer of the 19th century, who made crucial contributions in the arena
of planetary motion by applying Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravitation to the entire solar
system.

18.) Charles Babbage - English mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage is credited with
having conceived the first automatic digital computer. During the mid-1830s Babbage
developed plans for the Analytical Engine. Although it was never completed, the Analytical
Engine would have had most of the basic elements of the present-day computer.

19.) Alan Turing - Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptographer, and a pioneer of computer
science. Today, Turing may best be known for his work at Bletchley Park during World War II, and
his90part in breaking the German Enigma code. Yet by this time Turing was already well known as a
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mathematician. As a young man, his idea of a 'Universal Machine', a hypothetical type of
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computer,
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20.)
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West was an Italian-born French mathematician who
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excelled in all fields of analysis and number theory and analytical and celestial mechanics.
North
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TEST II MATH

93
a. 144 students
b. 58 students
c. 208 students 58 208
d. 18 students
272
e. 93 students
f. 300 students 98 144 109

PHYSICS CHEMISTRY
MEAN

x̄=Σf(x)/ Σf

=2,540/60

x̄= 42.33

MEDIAN
MODE
QUARTILE 1,2,3

Q1 = lbq1 + [(N/4 – <cfb)/f] i

lbQ1 = 30.5

N/4 = 15

<Cfb= 12

f = 12

i = 10

Q1 = lbq1 + [(N/4 – <cfb)/f] i

= 30.5 + [ (15-12)/12] 10

= 30.5 + (3/12)(10)
=30.5 + 0.25(10)
=30.5 + 2.5

Q1=33

Q2 = lbq2 + [(2N/4 – <cfb)/f] i

lbq2 = 40.5

2N/4 = 30

<cfb = 24
f = 22

i = 10

Q2 = lbq2 + [(2N/4 – <cfb)/f] i

= 40.5 + [(30-24)/22]10

= 40.5 + (6/22)(10)
=40.5 + (0.27)(10)

= 40.5 + 2.7

Q2= 43.2

Q3 = lbq3 + [(3N/4 – <cfb)/f] i

lbq3 = 40.5

3N/4 = 45

<cfb = 24

f = 22

i = 10

Q3 = lbq3 + [(3N/4 – <cfb)/f] i

= 40.5 + [(45-24)/22] i

= 40.5 + (21/22)(10)

=40.5 + 0.95(10)

=40.5 + 9.5

Q3= 50