NSQ 2024

• The first textbook in Differential calculus was written by Guillaume de l’Hôpital.
• Some staircases are in the form of a Spiral.
• G.W. Leibniz is the founder of the Logistic School of Mathematics.
• The theory of circulation of blood was founded by William Harvey.
• Benoit Mandelbrot is the author of “The Fractal Geometry of Nature”, an important contribution to understanding form and complexity in the physical universe.
• Al-Khwarizmi wrote the popular book which introduced Indian numbers and zero to the Arab world around A.D. 820.
• Bernard Bolzano is the author of “The Paradoxes of the Infinite”.
• Our measurement of time is based on the Sexagesimal number system.
• Fibonacci wrote “Liber Abaci” which introduced the Indian number system and zero to Europe.
• Indian mathematicians were leaders in the world of mathematics from 6th to 10th century.
• René Descartes wrote “Discourse on Method” in bed when he was hardly 16 years old and had studied mathematics for a few months only.
• The thread of a bolt is in the form of a Circular helix.
• D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson wrote “On Growth and Form”, a mathematical treatment of natural history.
• The first printed book on mathematics appeared in 1478.
• George Gamow wrote “One, Two, Three Infinity”, a book on numbers and their relationship with the cosmos.
• The number which may vary from time to time, does not leave one till one has finished studies is referred to as Roll number.
• Jagjit Singh is the author of “Mathematical Ideas, Their Nature and Use”.
• The problem of “Seven Bridges of Konigsberg” was posed in 1736.
• Sugar is occasionally served in the form of a cube.
• One's score in an I.Q test is known as ones' Intelligence quotient.
• Augustus De Morgan wrote the witty and amusing book "A Budget of Paradoxes".
• De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, a book by Copernicus, was published with a note claiming that the author had forwarded the revolutionary theory mentioned in it as a mathematical convenience and not as reality.
• Antoine Augustin Cournot wrote the first systematic treatise on the application of mathematics to economics, "Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of wealth".
• Eric Temple Bell wrote the classic "Men of Mathematics".
• Alan Turing wrote the classic "On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem" that dealt with logic in calculations.
• W. W. Rouse Ball wrote the entertainer "Mathematical Recreations and Essays".
• Girard Desargues' original work on geometry was ignored in his lifetime and recognized as a masterpiece two centuries later when a handmade copy of his printed work was accidentally discovered among his pupil's papers.
• The Christmas Star is also known as a Dodecagon.
• The Handbook of Mathematical Functions, a book by Abramowitz and Stegun, became popular as "The Red Monster" among not only mathematicians but also physicists, engineers, statisticians, etc, as a handy reference.
• Claudius Ptolemy employed "Epicycles" to explain the orbits of planets and the sun around the earth in the theory of the universe forwarded by him.
• Douglas Hofstadter wrote “Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid”, a mathematical masterpiece.
• A Lock, also known as a ‘combination lock’, occasionally operates on a special sequence of number.
• The dish of a radio telescope is concave in shape.
• Starfish, which have six arms, look like a hexagram.
• James Clark Maxwell gave the four key laws of electromagnetism in precise mathematical form.
• A tree, a snail, a volcano, the earth, a galaxy, are all examples of Turing machines.
• Rene Descartes and Pierre de Fermat are considered the founding fathers of Analytical Geometry.
• Principia Mathematica is considered the most unreadable mathematical classic.
• Joseph Fourier stated, “The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discovery”.
• Climbing views grow naturally in the form of a helix.