View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to the religious or philosophical concept that the soul is reborn after biological death?
(a) Polytheism.
(b) Creationism.
(c) Dualism.
(d) Reincarnation.

2. What refers to the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers?
(a) Harmonic mean.
(b) Frechet mean.
(c) Power mean.
(d) Mean of function.

3. When was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born?
(a) 1646.
(b) 1711.
(c) 1559.
(d) 1611.

4. The USS Yorktown was located off the coast of what location when the computer systems malfunctioned in September of 1997?
(a) Cape Charles, Virginia.
(b) New York, New York.
(c) Havana, Cuba.
(d) Del Norte, California.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What in graphical perspective refers to a point in the picture plane π that is determined by a line in space?

2. What does the author refer to as “zero’s twin” in the book?

3. Approximately when did Pythagoras live?

4. The operation of finding the area under a curve is now called what, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?

5. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that the Indians borrowed Greek geometry but never worried about what?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 230 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample