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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author asserts in Chapter 6, “Infinity's Twin” that with the introduction of imaginary numbers, the fundamental theorem of what mathematical branch was discovered?
(a) Geometry.
(b) Algebra.
(c) Quantum physics.
(d) Thermodynamics.

2. Pythagoreanism developed into two separate schools of thought. What group was called “the learners” in Greek?
(a) The mathēmatikoi.
(b) The Hippasusikoi.
(c) The akousmatikoi.
(d) The omnimatioi.

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

4. In particle physics, what refers to a proposed symmetry of nature relating two basic classes of elementary particles: bosons and fermions?
(a) Supersymmetry.
(b) A limit.
(c) Verisimilitude.
(d) A black hole.

5. What mathematical term refers to a function that preserves distinctness by never mapping distinct elements of its domain to the same element of its codomain?
(a) Derivative function.
(b) Differential equation.
(c) Bijective function.
(d) Injective function.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The word “Renaissance” derives from what meaning?

3. What was the Pythagorean cult’s most sacred symbol because it contained the golden ratio?

4. When was Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica first published?

5. 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?

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