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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many minutes made up an hour in the ancient Greek system?
2. According to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing,” the Pythagorean view tied numbers to what?
3. What branch of mathematics are the ancient Egyptians credited with creating in order to successfully build objects to block the flooding of the Nile River each year?
4. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that for the Indians, numerals without geometric significance gave birth to what field of mathematics?
5. Who founded the House of Wisdom that was established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq?
Short Essay Questions
1. What caused the USS Yorktown to have a computer meltdown in 1997, according to the author in Chapter 0, “Null and Void”? How is the ship described?
2. How does the author describe Islam’s history in the seventh century in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
3. How does the author describe the relationship between early Christianity and zero in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing”?
4. What theory was developed through Blaise Pascal’s mathematical approach to theology?
5. What reason does the author give for why the Greeks and Romans resisted using zero in their mathematical systems in Chapter 1, “Nothing Doing”?
6. What discoveries did Archimedes make in the mathematical world?
7. How did Filippo Brunelleschi introduce the concept of zero to the Italian Renaissance?
8. What Italian mathematician was responsible for the introduction of zero to Christianity and the Western world, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
9. How did Aristotle approach the concept of zero, according to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing”?
10. What were Blaise Pascal’s theological beliefs? How was zero viewed in his beliefs?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the origins, history, and evolution of mathematics in ancient Egypt. How was geometry developed in Egypt? How did the Egyptians use mathematics in the creation of the pyramids? How did the Nile relate to their use of mathematics?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the work of Sir Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Johannes Kepler, and the origins and development of calculus. When did Newton and Leibniz independently create calculus? What conflict occurred between the two? When did this conflict end?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the biography and work of Filippo Brunelleschi and the introduction of linear perspective. What did paintings look like before the invention of the vanishing point? How did Brunelleschi discover the concept of the vanishing point? How did this concept involve zero?
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