18 Questions
Luca Pacioli was known as the Father of Geometry and Trigonometry.
False
Gottfried Leibniz and Georg Cantor were influenced by the ideas of Luca Pacioli.
False
Leonardo da Vinci was Luca Pacioli's math student.
False
Luca Pacioli published 'Summa de Arithmetica' which summarized all of astronomy known at the time.
False
Luca Pacioli was an Italian mathematician who lived during the Renaissance period.
True
Luca Pacioli was a contemporary of Copernicus and Kepler, sharing ideas about elliptical orbits of planets.
False
Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia was an Italian mathematician who made significant contributions to the field of ballistics.
True
Antonio Fior was victorious in the challenge against Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia in 1535.
False
Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia discovered a method to solve depressed cubic equations before Scipione del Ferro.
False
Gerolamo Cardano was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance era.
True
The book 'Ars Magna' written by Gerolamo Cardano contained solutions to cubic and quartic equations.
True
Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia provided Gerolamo Cardano with the formula for solving a type of cubic equations.
True
Nicole Oresme is considered a prominent Renaissance mathematician.
True
Albert of Saxony's 'Theory of Impetus' was primarily focused on explaining gravitational forces.
False
Immanuel Bonfils is credited with pioneering exponential calculus.
True
Paulo Dagomari Di Prato was a 15th-century Italian mathematician.
False
Nicole Oresme was the first mathematician to use graphical analysis.
False
Albert of Saxony's 'Treatise on Proportions' influenced the application of the theory of proportions to motion.
True
Test your knowledge on Regiomontanus and the Law of Sines, focusing on Book II of On Triangles. Explore mathematical concepts related to geometric problems and astronomy as discussed in De docta ignorantia.
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