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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 diagonal of the square.
(c) Symbols for numerals.
(d) The Pythagorean Theorem.

2. Approximately when was Giordano Bruno born?
(a) 1459.
(b) 1548.
(c) 1366.
(d) 1623.

3. Bishop Berkeley was a philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called what?
(a) “Calculus.”
(b) “The Golden Ratio.”
(c) "Immaterialism."
(d) “String theory.”

4. Bosonic string theory was developed in what decade?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1890s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Filippo Brunelleschi famously engineered the dome of what cathedral?

2. Any number multiplied by zero equals what?

3. What term refers to space that is empty of matter?

4. The Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy was an argument between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over what?

5. What refers to a system in which the location of a point is given by coordinates that represent its distances from perpendicular lines that intersect at a point called the origin?

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