1. What work by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations in Arabic?
(a) A book of Annals.
(b) Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.
(c) The Death of the Prophet.
(d) An Index of Arabic Books.

2. What term in geometry refers to a straight line that just touches a plane curve at a given point?
(a) A hyperbole.
(b) A divergent.
(c) A tangent.
(d) A gravitational pull.

3. According to the author in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero,” some physicists think the merging of a particle and a black hole creates a tachyon or a particle with imaginary mass that could do what?
(a) Move backward in time.
(b) Devour the black hole.
(c) Move forward in time.
(d) Cross into space.

4. The preclassic Maya and their neighbors supposedly developed the concept of zero by what year?
(a) 10 BC.
(b) 23 BC.
(c) 36 BC.
(d) 50 BC.

5. In quantum mechanics, the concept of de Broglie waves reflects what?
(a) The emergence of black holes.
(b) The wave-particle duality of matter.
(c) The Big Bang Theory.
(d) The gravitational pull of the earth’s poles.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. What symbol in the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 70?

3. Approximately when did Johannes Kepler live?

4. Where was Giordano Bruno from?

5. Negative numbers first appeared where historically, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

(see the answer key)

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