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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. Where was Archimedes born?
(a) Olympia.
(b) Rome.
(c) Athens.
(d) Sicily.

2. What instruments did the Greeks use to square a shape?
(a) A pendulum.
(b) A small grid.
(c) A sphere and ruler.
(d) A compass and a ruled straight-edge.

3. In Elements, how many postulates must be accepted as given?
(a) Twenty-two.
(b) Five.
(c) Twelve,
(d) Eighteen.

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

5. Why did Cardano take an oath to secrecy?
(a) It was the only way he could become a priest,
(b) It was the only way to get his book published.
(c) It was to the only way to win the contest with Fior,
(d) It was the only way to get Tartaglia's solution to cubic equations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were Johann and Jakob Bernoulli?

2. According to Euclid, when is a triangle a right triangle?

3. Which of the following was NOT true about Archimedes, according to Dunham?

4. Where was the modern number system developed?

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

(see the answer key)

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