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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Newton's notation for differentiation uses what symbol placed over a function name to denote the time derivative of that function?
(a) An omega.
(b) A dot.
(c) An omicron.
(d) A line.

2. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that the Indians borrowed Greek geometry but never worried about what?
(a) Recording or calculating area.
(b) The Pythagorean Theorem.
(c) The diagonal of the square.
(d) Symbols for numerals.

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

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

5. When the Indians adopted a Babylonian style number system, its base was what, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) 60.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pythagoreanism developed into two separate schools of thought. What group was called “the learners” in Greek?

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

3. The author states in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing” that the concepts of infinity and the void frightened the ancient Greeks. They feared the infinite because it threatened the possibility of what?

4. The ancient Mayans used a numeral system that was based on what increment?

5. Bernhard Riemann was able to show how to generate the geometry for what, according to the author in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin”?

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