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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy was an argument between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over what?
(a) Who had first invented geometry.
(b) Who had first invented calculus.
(c) Who had first invented quantum mechanics.
(d) Who had first invented algebra.

2. Where was Giordano Bruno from?
(a) Italy.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) Great Britain.

3. Approximately when did Pythagoras live?
(a) 481-412 BC.
(b) 1200-1195 BC.
(c) 684-610 BC.
(d) 570-495 BC.

4. Where was Lord Kelvin born?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) London, England.
(c) Belfast, Northern Ireland.
(d) New York, New York.

5. The author asserts in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero” that today astronomers estimate the universe as being how old?
(a) 4 billion years.
(b) 2 billion years.
(c) 10 billion years.
(d) 15 billion years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name refers to sutra texts belonging to the Śrauta ritual and containing geometry related to fire-altar construction?

2. How is the Planck relation expressed?

3. Where was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz from?

4. The author says in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin” that by employing the concept of infinity, Johannes Kepler showed that ellipses and what were the same?

5. Albert Einstein proposed a static universe model as his preferred cosmology in what year?

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