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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Filippo Brunelleschi was born in approximately what year?
(a) 1520.
(b) 1377.
(c) 1414.
(d) 1601.

2. When was Jean le Rond d'Alembert born?
(a) 1659.
(b) 1701.
(c) 1717.
(d) 1811.

3. Pythagoreanism developed into two separate schools of thought. What group was called “the learners” in Greek?
(a) The omnimatioi.
(b) The akousmatikoi.
(c) The Hippasusikoi.
(d) The mathēmatikoi.

4. Zero is the only number that when added to itself does what?
(a) Remains unchanged.
(b) Turns into an imaginary number.
(c) Increases.
(d) Decreases.

5. What word did the Arabs use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?
(a) Siro.
(b) Sifr.
(c) Zephyr.
(d) Zeno.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author notes in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing” that the West resisted the concept of zero for how many years?

2. Approximately when did Pythagoras live?

3. When was Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica first published?

4. How is zero represented in Roman numerals?

5. The introduction of nothingness and zero into Jewish theology led in part to what offshoot Jewish mysticism?

(see the answer key)

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