A) French B) British C) German D) American
A) University of Göttingen B) Royal Observatory C) Göttingen Observatory D) Berlin Observatory
A) 19 B) 40 C) 25 D) 30
A) Equals sign (=) B) Single bar symbol (|) C) Triple bar symbol (≡) D) Double bar symbol (≡)
A) Theorema Egregium B) Pythagorean Theorem C) Fundamental Theorem of Algebra D) Fermat's Last Theorem
A) Exponential distribution B) Binomial distribution C) Poisson distribution D) Normal or Gaussian distribution
A) Invented the telescope B) Discovered the planet Neptune C) Developed the theory of relativity D) Led the geodetic survey of the Kingdom of Hanover
A) Nobel Prize B) Fields Medal C) Wolf Prize D) Lalande Prize
A) Steam engine B) Magnetometer C) Telephone D) Light bulb
A) James Clerk Maxwell B) Nikola Tesla C) Thomas Edison D) Wilhelm Eduard Weber
A) Theory of relativity B) Calculus C) Method of least squares D) Quantum mechanics
A) Richard Dedekind B) Albert Einstein C) Isaac Newton D) Stephen Hawking
A) He published all his work immediately B) He did not publish incomplete work C) He published only his incomplete work D) He published only his completed work
A) Publishing papers B) The act of learning C) Possession of knowledge D) Teaching others
A) Minor contributions B) Numerous contributions C) Single contribution D) None
A) A planet B) A telescope C) An algorithm D) A theory
A) Proved Earth's magnetic field is external B) First absolute measurement in 1832 C) Invented the compass D) Discovered Earth's magnetic field
A) Non-Euclidean geometry B) Elliptic geometry C) Euclidean geometry D) Hyperbolic geometry
A) Ignored Ceres B) Instrumental in its identification as a dwarf planet C) Discovered Ceres D) Named Ceres
A) Telephone B) Steam engine C) Light bulb D) Heliotrope
A) Discovered probability B) Invented dice C) Proved the law of large numbers D) Introduced the normal or Gaussian distribution
A) Discovered the theorem B) Ignored the theorem C) Refuted the theorem D) Produced the second and third complete proofs
A) Arithmetic–geometric mean B) Standard deviation C) Variance D) Correlation coefficient
A) Discovered all regular polygons B) First progress in over 2000 years with the heptadecagon C) Ignored the problem of regular polygons D) Proved the impossibility of constructing a heptagon
A) Ignored magnetism B) Discovered magnetism C) Invented the magnet D) Formulated the fundamental principles
A) Refuted the theorem B) Proved the triangular case C) Discovered the theorem D) Ignored the theorem
A) Gaussian gravitational constant B) Kepler's laws C) Newton's laws D) Heliocentric model
A) Introduced the concept of Gaussian curvature B) Discovered curvature C) Ignored curvature D) Refuted curvature
A) Numerous contributions such as the composition law and the law of quadratic reciprocity B) Minor contributions C) Single contribution D) None
A) Refuted inequality B) First to prove Gauss's inequality C) Ignored inequality D) Discovered inequality
A) Invented the seismograph B) Discovered geophysics C) Formulated the fundamental principles of magnetism D) Ignored geophysics
A) Invented the planetoid model B) Ignored planetoids C) Discovered planetoids D) Worked on the motion disturbed by large planets
A) Brunswick B) Hamburg C) Berlin D) Munich
A) Relatively low B) Middle C) Noble D) High
A) His mother B) A fellow student C) Elementary teachers D) His father
A) Berlin University B) University of Göttingen C) Collegium Carolinum D) University of Brunswick
A) Abraham Gotthelf Kästner B) Christian Gottlob Heyne C) Georg Christoph Lichtenberg D) Karl Felix Seyffer
A) Karl Felix Seyffer B) Abraham Gotthelf Kästner C) Georg Christoph Lichtenberg D) Christian Gottlob Heyne
A) Georg Christoph Lichtenberg B) Christian Gottlob Heyne C) Karl Felix Seyffer D) Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
A) The Elements B) The Foundations of Arithmetic C) Disquisitiones Arithmeticae D) Principia Mathematica
A) The theory of relativity B) Several theorems C) The laws of motion D) The Pythagorean theorem
A) 5250 B) 5150 C) 4950 D) 5050
A) Wilhelm Olbers B) Karl Ludwig Harding C) Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel D) Johann Friedrich Pfaff
A) 1804 B) 1799 C) 1806 D) 1809
A) Johann Friedrich Pfaff B) Peter Joseph Krahe C) Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel D) Karl Ludwig Harding
A) It expanded B) It became a kingdom C) It was abolished D) It remained unchanged
A) Astronomical society B) Celestial police C) Celestial observers D) Orbital analysts
A) 1807 B) 1810 C) 1820 D) 1800
A) Laplace B) Olbers C) Prince-primate Dalberg D) Jérôme Bonaparte
A) Astronomy B) Geodesy C) Physics D) Pure mathematics
A) Telescope B) Meridian circles C) Heliometer D) Sextant
A) 1500 Reichsthaler B) 2500 Reichsthaler C) 3000 Reichsthaler D) 1000 Reichsthaler
A) Once B) Seven C) Three D) Five
A) More than 150,000 Thaler B) More than 200,000 Thaler C) More than 50,000 Thaler D) More than 100,000 Thaler
A) Frankfurt Cemetery B) Göttingen University Cemetery C) Albani Cemetery D) Hanover Cemetery
A) Mayer B) Harding C) Weber D) Riemann
A) Pure mathematics B) Astronomy C) Geodesy D) Physics
A) Weber B) Eisenstein C) Bessel D) Gauss
A) Vienna University B) Leipzig University C) Göttingen University D) Berlin University
A) Health issues B) Disagreement with the academy's policies C) Lack of interest D) The family's difficult situation
A) About 18,000 Thaler B) About 5,000 Thaler C) About 25,000 Thaler D) About 10,000 Thaler
A) Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen B) Wilhelm Weber C) Gotthold Eisenstein D) Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
A) A collaborative effort with a long-time observation program B) A one-man enterprise without a long-time observation program C) A series of short-term projects D) A government-funded project
A) They remained close friends B) They never interacted C) They worked together harmoniously D) They became alienated
A) Treasurer B) Director C) Secretary D) Member
A) 25 October 1805 B) 1 October 1805 C) 9 October 1805 D) 15 October 1805
A) Wilhelmine (Minna) Waldeck B) Wilhelmina C) Therese D) Johanna
A) Ad Astra Per Aspera ('To the Stars Through Difficulties') B) Sapere Aude ('Dare to Know') C) Pauca sed Matura ('Few, but Ripe') D) Carpe Diem ('Seize the Day')
A) Humorous B) Enthusiastic C) Neutral D) Critical
A) Tuberculosis B) Smallpox C) Typhoid D) Cholera
A) Celle B) Berlin C) Hamburg D) Munich
A) Medicine B) Law C) Teaching D) Military
A) Medicine B) Philology C) Law D) Mathematics
A) Coins B) Books C) Numerical data D) Artifacts
A) Jane Austen B) Charles Dickens C) William Shakespeare D) Walter Scott
A) 62 B) 50 C) 70 D) 45
A) Catholic B) Lutheran C) Jewish D) Atheist
A) Mathematics is divine B) The universe is mathematical C) God arithmetizes D) Numbers are sacred
A) Lagrange B) Fermat C) Jean le Rond d'Alembert D) Euler
A) Four B) Two C) Three D) One
A) 1795 B) 1798 C) 1799 D) 1801
A) Unique factorization theorem B) Law of quadratic reciprocity C) Fermat's Last Theorem D) Fundamental theorem of algebra
A) Two B) Four C) Three D) One
A) 1792 B) 1823 C) 1816 D) 1831
A) Bessel B) Olbers C) Euler D) Seeber
A) 1811 B) 1798 C) 1823 D) 1808
A) The French Academy B) The Danish Society C) The German Academy D) The Royal Society
A) The later-named Beltrami equation B) The Gauss sums C) The Cauchy integral theorem D) The Eisenstein integers
A) Summatio quarundam serierum singularium B) On conformal mappings C) Disquisitiones generales circa series infinitam... D) On the theory of reduction of positive ternary quadratic forms
A) 1816 B) 1805 C) 1823 D) 1876
A) 1805 B) 1876 C) 1823 D) 1828
A) Joseph Fourier B) Ferdinand Minding C) Pierre Ossian Bonnet D) Gerling
A) Solving systems of linear equations B) Designing projections for geographical maps C) Calculating orbits of planets D) Developing efficient algorithms
A) The perpendicular postulate B) The parallel postulate C) The angle sum postulate D) The transversal postulate
A) The 1790s B) The 1820s C) The 1800s D) The 1810s
A) The 1820s B) The 1830s C) The 1810s D) The 1790s
A) János Bolyai B) Franz Taurinus C) Nikolai Lobachevsky D) Farkas Bolyai
A) 1832 B) 1829 C) 1900 D) 1856
A) Farkas Bolyai B) His father C) Nikolai Lobachevsky D) Franz Taurinus
A) 1824 B) 1900 C) 1856 D) 1832 |