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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Approximately when did Aristotle live?
(a) 601-548 BC.
(b) 520-459 BC.
(c) 384-322 BC.
(d) 214-181 BC.

3. A primary difficulty in the creation of a “Theory of Everything” is that most attempts to apply quantum mechanics to the gravitational field in the same way as for the electromagnetic field fails due to the breakdown of what?
(a) The Golden Ratio.
(b) The renormalization procedure.
(c) Differential equations.
(d) The gravitational pull.

4. The Renaissance roughly spanned the period of what centuries?
(a) The 9th to the 14th Centuries.
(b) The 14th to the 17th Centuries.
(c) The 10th to the 12th Centuries.
(d) The 16th to the 19th Centuries.

5. The author states in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin” that Carl Gauss realized that real and imaginary numbers could be what?
(a) Divided by one another.
(b) Graphed together.
(c) Multiplied by zero.
(d) Integrated into fractions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers?

2. When was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born?

3. The Rayleigh–Jeans law agrees with experimental results at large wavelengths but strongly disagrees at short wavelengths. What is this inconsistency known as?

4. Carl Gauss referred to mathematics as what?

5. What branch of mathematics are the ancient Egyptians credited with creating in order to successfully build objects to block the flooding of the Nile River each year?

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