Online Quiz on National Mathematics Day with Certificate

Organizer: Mathematics Department of Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College (Empowered Autonomous), Ghatkopar, Mumbai-400086.

To celebrate the National Mathematics Day on December 22, 2024, Mathematics Department of Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College (Empowered Autonomous), Ghatkopar, Mumbai-400086, is organizing a quiz about Indian mathematics and Indian mathematicians.

About the Quiz

• The quiz will remain open on 22-12-2024.
• There are 20 questions of 1 Mark each.
• Participants who score 10 or more, will get a participation e-certificate by an email.

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Who introduced zero in arithmetic calculations?*
Aryabhata
Hemchandra
Bhaskaracharya
Brahmagupta

Which of the following is known as Kaprekar’s constant after the Indian mathematician D. R. Kaprekar?*
7614
4617
6174
7146

Karmarkar’s Algorithm, introduced by Indian mathematician Narendra Karmarkar in 1984, is for solving*
Shortest Path Problem
Linear Programming Problem
Spanning Tree Problem

Colouring of a Graph Problem
Indian Mathematician C. R. Rao is well-known for*
Cramer – Rao bound
Fisher – Rao Theorem
Rao’s Score Test
All of these

Abhyankar’s conjecture is from which of the following field of mathematics?*
Abstract Algebra
Linear Algebra
Calculus
Graph Theory

Which of the following concepts were first introduced in the Indian mathematics?*
Fibonacci sequence
Pythagoras theorem
Decimal number system
All of these

The first Indian mathematician who won the Ramanujan prize by ICTP is*
Prof. Neena Gupta
Prof. Sujatha Ramdorai
Prof. J. N. Kapur
Prof. S. S. Abhyankar

The first Indian mathematician who won the prestigious Gábor Szegö prize in 2021*
Prof. Neena Gupta
Prof. Atul Dixit
Prof. Rajendra Bhatia
Prof. R. Balasubramanian

Indian mathematician Satyendranath Bose is known for his contribution in the field of*
Graph Theory
Theory of Integration
Statistical Mechanics
Algebraic Geometry

Identify the mathematician in the picture.*
Satyendranath Bose
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Harish-Chandra
Shriram Abhyankar

Srinivasa Ramanujan
Aryabhatta
Madhava
Brahmagupt

In India, who first calculated the value of ‘pi’?*
Bhaskarachrya
Aryabhata
Nilkantha
Brahmadeva

Indian mathematician who gave the value of π (pi) correct upto 11 decimal places
Srinivas Ramanujan
Aryabhata
Madhava of Sangamgrama
Shakuntala Devi

The book ‘Siddhanta Siromani’ was written by which Indian mathematician 
Madhava of Sangamgrama
Brahmagupta
Bhaskaracharya
Aryabhatta

Ramanujan used to write his ideas and results on loose sheets. What is the name of the book made of these sheets?
Book of proof
Collected papers of Ramanujan
Notebook of Ramanujan
The lost notebook

The book named ‘Lilavati’ was written by which Indian mathematician
Bhaskaracharya
Lilavati
Brahmagupta
Bhaskara I

Who has the title of  ‘World’s fastest Human Calculator’ ?
Shakuntala devi
Prof. Neena Gupta
Srinivas Ramanujan

Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash
Hardy-Ramanujan  number is the smallest  number that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. Which one of the following is a Hardy-Ramanujan number? 
1927
1297
1729
1279

Who received SASTRA Ramanujan prize in 2005, and also awarded with Padma Bhushan in 2015?
Kannan Soundararajan
Manjul Bhargava
Akshay Venkatesh
Ben Green

Which of the following is a biographical novel loosely based on the famous partnership between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G. H. Hardy?
The Indian Clerk
A Beautiful Mind
A disappearing Number
Gifted