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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Calculus allowed Newton to combine the known natural laws of physics into one grand set of laws that could be expressed as what?
(a) String theory.
(b) Differential equations.
(c) M-Theory.
(d) The Golden Ratio.

2. Negative numbers first appeared where historically, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) Europe and the Americas.
(b) Egypt and Babylonia.
(c) In Mayan and Native American cultures.
(d) India and China.

3. The introduction of nothingness and zero into Jewish theology led in part to what offshoot Jewish mysticism?
(a) Sufism.
(b) Orthodoxy.
(c) Hasidism.
(d) Kabbalism.

4. According to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians,” Jean le Rond d'Alembert had satisfied the mathematician's need for what?
(a) An all-encompassing theory.
(b) Theology.
(c) Spirituality.
(d) Logical rigor.

5. What 12 Century rabbi sought to reconcile Greek philosophy with the Semitic Bible?
(a) Robert Wexler.
(b) Maimonides.
(c) Shlomo ben Aderet.
(d) Nahmanides.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the viewpoint that regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge?

2. Jean le Rond d'Alembert came up with what idea that solved the zero problem in calculus?

3. Approximately when did Johannes Kepler live?

4. What principle holds that there is an inverse relation between the fineness with which a particular's location can be determined and the fineness with which its velocity can be determined?

5. The Rayleigh–Jeans law revealed an important error in physics theory of its time. The law predicted an energy output that diverges towards infinity as wavelength approaches what?

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