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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bernoullis and the Harmonic Series.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hippocrates do that advanced mathematical methods?
(a) He demonstrated that geometry does not have to be based on previous knowledge.
(b) He created a new ways to disprove theories.
(c) He built theorems based on sequencially more complex proofs.
(d) He proved that mathematics can be applied in a unlogical order.

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

3. What was Hippocrates's great advance to mathematics?
(a) He showed how to find the angles in a right triangle.
(b) He showed how to square a figure with curved sides.
(c) He showed how to simplify the area of a triangle.
(d) He showed how to square a circle.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which phrase best describes Newton as a student at Cambridge?

2. What did Dunham discuss for many pages in this chapter?

3. What name did Euclid give for numbers that could be divided by numbers other than themselves and one?

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

5. Which is one of the common notions presented in Elements?

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