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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the author say early medieval Jews took up residence and discovered that Aristotle’s aversion to zero contradicted Jewish theology in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) South America.
(b) Ancient Egypt.
(c) Muslim Spain.
(d) Rome.

2. When was Jean le Rond d'Alembert born?
(a) 1717.
(b) 1701.
(c) 1659.
(d) 1811.

3. The author says in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin” that by employing the concept of infinity, Johannes Kepler showed that ellipses and what were the same?
(a) Derivatives.
(b) Limits.
(c) Tangents.
(d) Parabolas.

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

5. Where was Giordano Bruno from?
(a) Spain.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) Great Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term in geometry refers to a straight line that just touches a plane curve at a given point?

2. Bosonic string theory was developed in what decade?

3. Ptolemy wrote what mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths?

4. Approximately when did Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi live?

5. Bernhard Riemann was able to show how to generate the geometry for what, according to the author in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin”?

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