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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cantor and the Transfinite Realm.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did British scholars accuse Leibniz of?
(a) Stealing Newton's Binomial theorem.
(b) Conspiring the death of Newton.
(c) Publishing Newton's work without his approval.
(d) Plagiarizing Newton's calculus method.

2. What is one proof that Euler was able to prove?
(a) Newton's method of calculus.
(b) Descartes' number theory.
(c) "little Fermat theorem."
(d) Bernoulli's principle of lift.

3. What did Dunham discuss for many pages in this chapter?
(a) Heron's political tendancy.
(b) Heron's complicated proof.
(c) Heron's religious beliefs-
(d) Heron's origins of the universe.

4. What was Hippocrates famous for?
(a) His theorem on the quadrature of the lune.
(b) His proof on right triangles.
(c) His proof defining gravity.
(d) His ability to construct circles without a compass.

5. Heron devised which of the following methods?
(a) A way to apply mathematics to public health.
(b) A way to determine the area of a triangle.
(c) A way to solve binomial equations.
(d) A way to determine the volume in a sphere.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Dunham describe about the following series 1 + 2 + 3 + 4. . .?

3. After Hippocrates, what shape did the Greeks attempt to square without success?

4. Which mathematician was first to take the challenge to solve cubic equations?

5. Which of the following was one of Gauss' early discoveries?

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