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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 an important proposition given by Euclid's number theory?
(a) Any even number is divisible by 3.
(b) Numbers from one to ten are only divisible by composite numbers.
(c) Any perfect number is divisible by some composite number.
(d) Any composite number is divisible by some prime number.

2. What is true about prime numbers?
(a) Prime numbers are not divisible by other numbers.
(b) Prime numbers can not exist in a finite series.
(c) That for every group of prime numbers, there exists at least one more prime.
(d) Prime numbers can never be an odd number.

3. What didn't Euler attempt?
(a) A series where exponents are odd.
(b) A series starting with the number 1.
(c) A series where exponents are even.
(d) A series of sequencially smaller terms.

4. Which of the following was NOT defined by Euclid?
(a) Odd numbers.
(b) Even numbers.
(c) Whole numbers.
(d) Nominal numbers.

5. What shape was NOT demonstrated in the Elements as having a relationship to other shapes?
(a) Pentagon.
(b) Triangle.
(c) Hexagon.
(d) Hyperbola.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following can not be solved using algebra?

2. When was Euler born?

3. Who's method did Tartaglia's challenger use in the contest to solve cubic equations?

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

5. Who challenged Tartaglia to a contest to solve cubic equations?

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