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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. The USS Yorktown was located off the coast of what location when the computer systems malfunctioned in September of 1997?
2. What work by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations in Arabic?
3. The Renaissance roughly spanned the period of what centuries?
4. What region in the Middle East is widely considered to be the cradle of civilization?
5. Zero is the only number that when added to itself does what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe the early counting systems of prehistoric mathematics in Chapter 1, “Nothing Doing”?
2. How does the concept of zero relate to the beliefs of Hinduism?
3. 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?
4. What discoveries did Archimedes make in the mathematical world?
5. What results came about when Indian mathematicians began separating numbers from shapes, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
6. What paradox of Zeno of Elea’s is presented by the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing”?
7. What theory was developed through Blaise Pascal’s mathematical approach to theology?
8. How did Aristotle approach the concept of zero, according to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing”?
9. How did mathematics and the concept of zero evolve in India through the 5th Century AD?
10. What advancements in mathematics were made by René Descartes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the biography and the philosophical, artistic, and mathematical contributions of Aristotle. How influential were Aristotle’s ideas in the formation of Western culture? How does the concept of zero impact Aristotle’s view?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the origins, development, and contributions of Babylonian mathematics. How did the Babylonian numeral system differ from that of the ancient Egyptians? Where has most of our information of Babylonian mathematics been derived?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss the advancements made in mathematics, music, and philosophy by Pythagoras. What is the Pythagorean Theorem? When was it developed? What were the beliefs of the Pythagoreans?
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