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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Extraordinary Sums of Leonhard Euler.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was true about Cardano, according to Dunham?
(a) He was jailed for heresy.
(b) He was not a mathematician.
(c) He had three wives.
(d) He was a priest.

2. What were the main technique(s) that Euler used to find the sum of the series?
(a) Calculus methods.
(b) Cubic equations.
(c) Trigonometry and basic algebra.
(d) Quadratic sums,

3. Which of the following is an example of a perfect number?
(a) 20.
(b) 1.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

4. Who's method did Tartaglia's challenger use in the contest to solve cubic equations?
(a) del Ferro's method.
(b) Fontana's method.
(c) Cardano's method.
(d) Pacioli's method.

5. Which of the following could NOT be included as a step in Euclid's great theorem?
(a) Take a finite group of primes and add them together, plus one.
(b) After summation, the new number can be prime or composite.
(c) Divide a infinite group of primes by the sum of their composites.
(d) If a new number is found to be composite, then it must have some prime as a divisor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which mathematician was first to take the challenge to solve cubic equations?

2. What did Euler's sum surprisingly connect?

3. What was Euclid's definition of a prime number?

4. What else, besides a solution to cubic equations, was in Cardano's book?

5. How many sides did the pentadecagon have, as presented by Euclid?

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