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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. What did Euler's sum surprisingly connect?
(a) The squares of area and square roots.
(b) The circumference of a circle and right triangles.
(c) The area under a curve.
(d) The area of squares and the area of circles.

2. What was the title of Cardano's book which contained the solution to the cubic?
(a) Tarsisia.
(b) Ars Magna.
(c) La Magnifica.
(d) Elements.

3. Where was Neil's Abel from?
(a) Finland.
(b) Norway.
(c) Great Britian,
(d) Ireland.

4. Who was Euler's teacher?
(a) Jakob Bernoulli.
(b) Gottfried Leibniz.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) Johann Bernoulli.

5. What is the sum of the series 1 + 1/2³ + 1/3³ + 1/4³ ... 1/k³ . . .?
(a) 0.
(b) Infinity.
(c) Nobody has determined the sum.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is true about prime numbers?

2. Who wrote a treatise that supposed that cubic equations may be impossible to solve?

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

4. Who asked Tartaglia for his solution to cubic equations?

5. What allowed Cardano to justify publishing his book?

(see the answer key)

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