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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Lord Kelvin born?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1824.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1915.

2. What refers to an indeterminate polynomial equation that allows the variables to take integer values only?
(a) Diophantine equation.
(b) Tangent equation.
(c) Derivative equation.
(d) Differential equation.

3. Where did Copernicus live?
(a) Prussia.
(b) Rome.
(c) Egypt.
(d) France.

4. Pythagoreanism was a cult that greatly influenced what philosophical system?
(a) Platonism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Athenism.
(d) Hinduism.

5. What principle holds that there is an inverse relation between the fineness with which a particular's location can be determined and the fineness with which its velocity can be determined?
(a) The Golden Ratio.
(b) The Planck constant.
(c) The Pythagorean Theorem.
(d) The Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin,” geometry shows that mathematically the north and south poles of spheres do what?

2. The introduction of nothingness and zero into Jewish theology led in part to what offshoot Jewish mysticism?

3. The operation of finding the area under a curve is now called what, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?

4. According to the author in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero,” some physicists think the merging of a particle and a black hole creates a tachyon or a particle with imaginary mass that could do what?

5. What mathematical term refers to a function giving an exact pairing of the elements of two sets?

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