Journals That Published Groundbreaking Mathematical Discoveries

This quiz tests your knowledge of the journals that published groundbreaking mathematical discoveries.

15 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which journal published Pierre de Fermat's Last Theorem in 1995?

  1. Annals of Mathematics
  2. Journal of the American Mathematical Society
  3. Inventiones Mathematicae
  4. Acta Mathematica
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which journal did Srinivasa Ramanujan publish his famous paper on mock theta functions in 1917?

  1. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society
  2. Quarterly Journal of Mathematics
  3. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
  4. Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which journal published Bernhard Riemann's groundbreaking paper on Riemann surfaces in 1851?

  1. Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik
  2. Mathematische Annalen
  3. Göttinger Nachrichten
  4. Crelle's Journal
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which journal did Emmy Noether publish her seminal paper on Noether's theorem in 1918?

  1. Mathematische Annalen
  2. Göttinger Nachrichten
  3. Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik
  4. Crelle's Journal
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which journal published Alan Turing's groundbreaking paper on computability and undecidability in 1936?

  1. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society
  2. Quarterly Journal of Mathematics
  3. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
  4. Journal of the London Mathematical Society
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which journal did John von Neumann publish his seminal paper on game theory in 1928?

  1. Mathematische Annalen
  2. Göttinger Nachrichten
  3. Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik
  4. Crelle's Journal
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which journal published Kurt Gödel's famous incompleteness theorems in 1931?

  1. Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik
  2. Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
  3. Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien
  4. Ergebnisse eines mathematischen Kolloquiums
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which journal did Paul Erdős publish his groundbreaking paper on random graphs in 1960?

  1. Publications of the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  2. Acta Mathematica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
  3. Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica
  4. Mathematica (Cluj)
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which journal published Stephen Smale's seminal paper on dynamical systems in 1967?

  1. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
  2. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
  3. Annals of Mathematics
  4. Journal of Differential Equations
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which journal did Grigori Perelman publish his groundbreaking paper on the Poincaré conjecture in 2002?

  1. arXiv
  2. Journal of Differential Geometry
  3. Geometry & Topology
  4. Annals of Mathematics
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which journal published Terence Tao's seminal paper on the Green-Tao theorem in 2006?

  1. Annals of Mathematics
  2. Journal of the American Mathematical Society
  3. Inventiones Mathematicae
  4. Acta Mathematica
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which journal did Maryam Mirzakhani publish her groundbreaking paper on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces in 2004?

  1. Annals of Mathematics
  2. Journal of the American Mathematical Society
  3. Inventiones Mathematicae
  4. Acta Mathematica
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which journal published James Maynard's seminal paper on the Hardy-Littlewood conjecture in 2013?

  1. Annals of Mathematics
  2. Journal of the American Mathematical Society
  3. Inventiones Mathematicae
  4. Acta Mathematica
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which journal did Artur Avila publish his groundbreaking paper on the Aubry-Mather theory in 2006?

  1. Annals of Mathematics
  2. Journal of the American Mathematical Society
  3. Inventiones Mathematicae
  4. Acta Mathematica
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which journal published Maryna Viazovska's seminal paper on the sphere packing problem in 2016?

  1. Annals of Mathematics
  2. Journal of the American Mathematical Society
  3. Inventiones Mathematicae
  4. Acta Mathematica