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

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) M-Theory.
(b) String theory.
(c) The Golden Ratio.
(d) Differential equations.

2. Bishop Berkeley was a philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called what?
(a) “The Golden Ratio.”
(b) “Calculus.”
(c) "Immaterialism."
(d) “String theory.”

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

4. Aristotle referred to Zeno of Elea as the inventor of what?
(a) Algebra.
(b) Geometry.
(c) The dialectic.
(d) The Zeno theorem.

5. When did Nicholas of Cusa live?
(a) 1305-1339.
(b) 1501-1559.
(c) 1401-1464.
(d) 1623-1698.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Approximately when did Pythagoras live?

3. When was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born?

4. What term in geometry refers to a straight line that just touches a plane curve at a given point?

5. The ancient Babylonians are credited with the creation of what calculation tool?

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