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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The system that equipped the USS Yorktown in 1996 and 1997 was predicted to save $2.8 million per year by reducing the ship’s complement by what percentage?
(a) 10%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 5%.
(d) 30%.

2. What refers to a system of tribunals developed by the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church during the second half of the 16th Century?
(a) The Roman Inquisition.
(b) The Medieval Inquisition.
(c) The Spanish Inquisition.
(d) The Catalina Inquisition.

3. Aristotle referred to Zeno of Elea as the inventor of what?
(a) Algebra.
(b) Geometry.
(c) The Zeno theorem.
(d) The dialectic.

4. Bernhard Riemann was able to show how to generate the geometry for what, according to the author in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin”?
(a) Non-Euclidean spaces.
(b) Sound waves.
(c) Light waves.
(d) Differential equations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the study of geometric properties that are invariant under projective transformations?

2. In particle physics, what refers to a proposed symmetry of nature relating two basic classes of elementary particles: bosons and fermions?

3. What word did the Arabs use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?

4. The author notes in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing” that the West resisted the concept of zero for how many years?

5. What does the author refer to as “zero’s twin” in the book?

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