Famous People Quiz for 9 August 2016
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Question 1: Which Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under a parabola, and provided formulas for the volumes of surfaces of revolution and a system for expressing very large numbers?
A
B
Cicero
Pythagoras
C
Euclid
D
Archimedes