Part I: These questions (1 through 20) are worth 2 points each 1. Why is Blaise
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Part I: These questions (1 through 20) are worth 2 points each 1. Why is Blaise Pascal known as the "greatest might have been" of mathematicians? A. He died from wounds he received in a duel at the age of 19. B. He never published any of his work so other people received credit for his discoveries. C. He limited the time that he worked in mathematics due to his religious zeal. D. He lived in Italy and his work in astronomy and mathematics was banned by the Pope. E. He had the misfortune to work on the same ideas at the same time as Isaac Newton. 2. What is the document from which we have most of our information concerning the mathematics of the ancient Egvptians? A. The Moscow Papyrus B. The Ah-mes Papyrus C. The Cairo Papyrus D. The Rhind Papyrus E. The Papyrus of the Sphinx 3. of any liberal education? For two thousand years after its publication, why was Euclid's Elements considered an essential part A. It was considered the best example of how mathematics could be applied to the natural world. B. It was considered the best textbook for teaching geometric constructi C. It was considered an excellent example of early Greek literature. D. It was considered the best summary of all the mathematics known in the ancient world E. It was considered an excellent text for teaching logic and reasoning because of its axioms and theorems. 4. Fibonacci explained that he wrote Liber Abaci so that "the Latin race might no longer be deficient in that knowledge." To what knowledge was he referring? A. The Fibonacci Number Sequence B. The Hindu-Arabic Numeration System C. The Golden Ratio D. The Quadratic Formula E. The symbols for representing constants and variables 5. Which mathematician invented the pie chart to represent the causes of soldiers' deaths during the Crimean War? A. Florence Nightingale B. Ramanujan C. Sophie Germain D. John Wallis E. Ada Byron Lovelace King 6. Which of the following was the focus of the majority of Descartes' masterpiece, La Geometrie? A. Theory of equations B. Conic sections C. Probability D. Trigonometry E. Application of algebra to geometryExplanation / Answer
1. Pascal is called the "greatest-might-have-been" because
C. He limited the time that he worked in mathematics due to his religious zeal.
2. The document from which we know about Egyptian mathematics is the
D. Rhynd Papyrus.
3. Euclid's elements was considered essential because
E. It was considered an excellent text for teaching logic and reasoning because of it's axioms and theorems.
4. Fibonacci mentioned about
B. The Hindu-Arabic numeration system.
5. The mathematician who "invented" the pie chart during the Crimean war was
A. Florence Nightingale.
6. La Geometrie focussed on
E. Application of algebra to geometry
Hence the name "Cartesian co-ordinates".