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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What work by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations in Arabic?
(a) A book of Annals.
(b) An Index of Arabic Books.
(c) Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.
(d) The Death of the Prophet.

2. Where was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz from?
(a) Germany.
(b) Belgium.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) France.

3. Negative numbers first appeared where historically, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) Europe and the Americas.
(b) In Mayan and Native American cultures.
(c) Egypt and Babylonia.
(d) India and China.

4. According to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians,” Leibniz wanted to use infinitesimals in calculus which were termed what?
(a) “dx.”
(b) “ö.”
(c) “mi.”
(d) “∞.”

5. Bishop Berkeley was a philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called what?
(a) “String theory.”
(b) “Calculus.”
(c) “The Golden Ratio.”
(d) "Immaterialism."

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Albert Einstein awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his “discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”?

2. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that for the Indians, numerals without geometric significance gave birth to what field of mathematics?

3. What term refers to an elementary particle, the quantum of light and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation?

4. What refers to an optical telescope that uses a single or combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image?

5. What principle holds that there is an inverse relation between the fineness with which a particular's location can be determined and the fineness with which its velocity can be determined?

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