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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. Which city was the center of thinking and learning in Third century BC?
(a) Athens.
(b) Olympia.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Rome.

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

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. Where was the modern number system developed?
(a) In the West.
(b) In ancient Alexanderia.
(c) In the East.
(d) In ancient Rome.

5. What did Heron's advances put into historical perspective for Dunham?
(a) A change in political theory across the globe.
(b) A shift in information flow that ignored socioeconomic order.
(c) A change in learning foundations in the ancient scholarly universities.
(d) A shift in learning across continents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Neil's Abel?

2. What is a "depressed cubic"?

3. What provided most of the content in the book Elements?

4. What did Ferdinand Lindeman prove in 1882?

5. Which word best describes Newton's childhood?

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