# 40 Maths General Knowledge Questions And Answers

1. Who discovered Zero (0)?

Explanation: Aryabhatta invented zero but he didn’t give any symbol for zero, Brahmagupta was the first to give symbol for zero and rules to compute with zero.

2. Who discovered the laws of the lever and pulley?
3. Who is the Father of Mathematics?
4. Father of Algebra?

5. The average of first 50 natural numbers?

6. The value of Pi?

7. When is Pi Day celebrated around the world?
8. Who created the symbol ‘e’ ?
9. Value of cos 360°?

10. Angle greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees are called?

11. First person to use the Greek letter pi (π) to denote the constant?

12. Scientist who was born on Pi Day?

13. Who discovered Pythagoras Theorem?

14. Who discovered the Symbol Infinity “∞”?

15. Who discovered Fibonacci Sequence?

16. Who discovered Logarithms and the Decimal point?

17. Who discovered center of gravity?
18. Who invented the equals sign (=) ?

19. Who invented Slide rule?

20. Who invented Unknown or variable quantities x, y, z ?
21. Who developed an easy method to find out all the Prime Numbers?

22. Which Greek Mathematician was killed by Romans during the capture of Syracuse?

23. Euler’s Formula?

Answer: Euler discovered two Important formulas
1) F + V = E + 2
2) e ix = cos x + i sin x

24. Father of Trigonometry?

25. Who discovered Line Graph, Bar Chart, Circle Graph?

26. Who invented Boolean Algebra?

27. Write the next number of the following Sequences 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,_?

28. Who discovered Graph Theory?

29. Who discovered ∇ (delta)?
30. Value of Napier’s constant ‘e’ ?

31. Who invented Unit Vectors i, j, k ?

32. Who discovered the Square Root symbol √ ?

33. Who is considered as the Father of Calculus?
Answer: Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz
34. Father of Science?
35. Who is the Father of Analytic Geometry?

Answer: René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat

36. Which numbers were believed to Promote Love?

37. Who invented Statistical Graph?
38. Who created BODMAS rule?