Q1. In 410BC a member of the Pythogorean cult committed an act of
blasphemy. He applied Pythogoras' theorem to an isoceles triangle and
discovered something. They asked him to take back what he said, but he
insisted it was true. As a result, they threw him off a cliff. What did
he do?
A. Discovered irrationality. The basic tenet of the Pythogorean cult was
that the affairs of men are measurable in terms of ratios of real
numbers.
Q2. In 1632 a book was published. Its title in English is "The Two Chief
Systems". It consisted of a dialogue between a scientist, an intelligent
layman and an extremist Aristotelian. The Pope disliked the book. Give
me the author or the funda.
A. Galileo Galilei. On the Copernican heliocentric theory vs geocentric
one.
Q3. In 1692 Jean Bernoulli instructed a young French marquis in calculus
and signed a pact under which he would send the marquis all his
discoveries. The aristocrat published a book "Analyse de infiniment
petits" which had a very important result in it. It was named after the
marquis although it was Bernoullis work. What?
A.Marquis de L'Hospital: L'Hospital's Rule of limits.
Q4. A substance which is extremely soluble in supercritical fluid
carbondioxide and somewhat soluble in water. Aqueous solutions
containing it quickly break down. Quite common in beverages, including
cola.
A. Caffeine.
Q5.We know the problem of a fly flying between two trains till it gets
crushed. The easy way is to take the speed and find the total time it
will be flying. The difficult way is to take an infinite series.
When posed to this mathematician, he replied
150 miles
Its very strange said the poser, but nearly everyone tries to sum
infinite series.
What do you mean strange? Thats how I did it!
Who?
A. John Von Neumann.
Q6. "The Italian Explorer has reached the new world" This statement was
made about an event which took place on Dec 2 1942 in Chicago. The
person had been awarded the Nobel Prize in 1938 for work on transuranic
elements.
A. Enrico Fermi and hte Atomic pile.