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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cardano and the Solution of the Cubic.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What else, besides a solution to cubic equations, was in Cardano's book?
(a) A proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.
(b) A suggested method to depress all complex geometry.
(c) An alegrabic solution to quintic equations,
(d) A solution to quartic equations.

2. Who asked Tartaglia for his solution to cubic equations?
(a) Pacioli.
(b) Cardano.
(c) Fior,
(d) Fontana.

3. What allowed Cardano to justify publishing his book?
(a) He was dead, and the book was really published by his student.
(b) He found Fior's documents which spoke against Tartaglia.
(c) He was punished as a heretic,
(d) He found del Ferro's orgininal solution to the cubic.

4. Which of the following becomes an important definition in mathematics that was first presented in Elements?
(a) Circle.
(b) Intersection.
(c) 180 degree angle.
(d) Parallel line.

5. Who was Eratosthanes?
(a) He was the first to study political sciences.
(b) He was a teacher and philosopher.
(c) He was the chief librarian, and a mathematician.
(d) He was a mathematician, and leading doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instruments did the Greeks use to square a shape?

2. Which is a geometric concept that humans have been aware of since the dawn of agriculture?

3. How do we know about Hippocrates proofs and theorems?

4. Which of the following is true in modern math about twin primes?

5. Numbers whose divisor add up to itself, was considered which type of number according to Euclid?

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