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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. How many sides did the pentadecagon have, as presented by Euclid?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Five.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Ten.

2. Which of the following is true in modern math about twin primes?
(a) We don't know if they are finite or infinite.
(b) They are not considered whole numbers.
(c) Their sum is always another prime number.
(d) They are infinite.

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

4. Besides being a mathematician, what else other work was Archimedes famous for?
(a) Doctor and writer,
(b) Artist and musician.
(c) Politician.
(d) Inventor and scientist.

5. Numbers whose divisor add up to itself, was considered which type of number according to Euclid?
(a) Even number.
(b) Perfect number.
(c) Composite number.
(d) Nominal number.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was known about pi, during Archimedes' time?

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

4. Which of the following was NOT one of the things Dunham claimed was ingenious about Euclid's proof of the Pythagorean theorem?

5. "Straight lines in the same plane that will never meet if extended forever" is a definition of what?

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