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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 Gauss set out to prove?
(a) That a circle can have less than 360 degrees.
(b) That Euclid's postulate on straight lines was incorrect.
(c) That a right angle is always equal to 90 degrees.
(d) That the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees.

2. What was the same about Apollonius and Erosthanes?
(a) They were both born in the same year.
(b) They were both mathematicians.
(c) They both studied the Universe.
(d) They both calculated the circumference of the earth.

3. Where did Hippocrates come from?
(a) Chios.
(b) Athens.
(c) Constinople.
(d) Rome.

4. Who was Heron?
(a) A physician from the far East.
(b) A matematician from Alexanderia.
(c) A philosopher from Greece.
(d) A politician from Rome.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following could NOT be included as a step in Euclid's great theorem?

2. How did Lindeman prove his conclusion?

3. Who was Neil's Abel?

4. Which word best describes Newton's childhood?

5. When was the work of these early thinkers rediscovered again in history?

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