Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics Quiz

William Dunham (mathematician)

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What else, besides a solution to cubic equations, was in Cardano's book? (from Cardano and the Solution of the Cubic)

An alegrabic solution to quintic equations,

A suggested method to depress all complex geometry.

A solution to quartic equations.

A proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.

2.

What did Dunham discuss for many pages in this chapter? (from Heron's Formula for Triangular Area)

Heron's complicated proof.

Heron's political tendancy.

Heron's religious beliefs-

Heron's origins of the universe.

3.

What is true about real numbers between 0 and 1? (from The Non-Denumerability of the Continuum)

They are denumerable,

They are not denumerable.

There is no set for these numbers.

No sum can be determined.

4.

Which city was the center of thinking and learning in Third century BC? (from Heron's Formula for Triangular Area)

Rome.

Olympia.

Athens.

Alexandria.

5.

What range of values did Archimedes determine for pi? (from Archimedes' Determination of Circular Area)

Between 3 1/2 and 3 5/8.

Between 3 10/11 and 3 1/7.

Between 3 and 3 1/2.

Between 3 and 4.

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