Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Quiz

Charles Seife
This Study Guide consists of approximately 25 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Zero.

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Quiz

Charles Seife
This Study Guide consists of approximately 25 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Zero.

Take our free Zero quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

According to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians,” Leibniz wanted to use infinitesimals in calculus which were termed what?

2.

Where did Copernicus live?

3.

Who proposed that a static universe could be viable if there was an alternative explanation of redshift due to a mechanism that would cause light to lose energy as it traveled through space?

4.

What theory is used to formalize mathematics and its concepts as a collection of objects and arrows (morphisms)?

5.

When did Sir Isaac Newton live?

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