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## 1.2 Worksheet **Name:** April Shane O. Castillo **Section:** 455 **Date:** 08/27/24 **Score:** 15/15 **Write the correct answer in the space provided.** 1. A numerical system developed in ancient Egypt that was based on the number 10 is known as **Hieroglyphic numerals**. 2. He is the fa...

## 1.2 Worksheet **Name:** April Shane O. Castillo **Section:** 455 **Date:** 08/27/24 **Score:** 15/15 **Write the correct answer in the space provided.** 1. A numerical system developed in ancient Egypt that was based on the number 10 is known as **Hieroglyphic numerals**. 2. He is the father of Geometry. **Euclid** 3. He introduced the Hindu-Arabic numeration system in Western Europe through his book Liber Abaci. **Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci** 4. The first people to assign symbols to group of objects to represent numbers. **Sumerians** 5. A German mathematician who first introduced the + and - symbols in print in his book Mercantile Arithmetic. **Johannes Widmann** 6. He is considered the founder of Trigonometry. **Hipparchus of Nicaea** 7. He showed the power of mathematics as a calculatory science with his discovery of logarithms. **John Napier** 8. A Greek mathematician who derived a range of formulas in Geometry including the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere and the area under a parabola. **Archimedes of Syracuse** 9. The earliest known writing system, a pictographic writing system is known as **cuneiform script**. 10. The best-known contribution of Hindu mathematics to modern Mathematics is the **decimal position system**. 11. A French lawyer and a mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus. **Pierre de Fermat** 12. He invented the Cartesian coordinate system and developed analytic Geometry. **Rene Descartes** 13. He started the Graph Theory, the Calculus of Variations and Differential Geometry. **Leonhard Euler** 14. He proved the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra in 1799. **Carl Friedrich Gauss** 15. The mathematician who introduced Fractal Geometry. **Benoit Mandelbrot** **CHAPTER 1. HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS** **Corrected by:** Resel