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Midterm | MATH 01410 - History of Mathematics, Quizzes of Educational Mathematics

Class: MATH 01410 - History of Mathematics; Subject: Mathematics; University: Rowan University; Term: Fall 2012;

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2011/2012

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The ancient Egyptians civilization lasted over
3000 years T/F
DEFINITION 1
True
TERM 2
The status of women was higher in ancient
Egypt than in most other places at that time
DEFINITION 2
True
TERM 3
Rhind Papyrus
DEFINITION 3
the document from about 1650 BC from which we have
learned much aboutEgyptian mathematics in ancient times
TERM 4
The ancient Egyptians knew the exact
formula for the area of a circle
DEFINITION 4
False
TERM 5
The Babylonians knew the Pythagorean
Theorem 1000 years before the time of
Pythagoras
DEFINITION 5
True
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The ancient Egyptians civilization lasted over

3000 years T/F

True

TERM 2

The status of women was higher in ancient

Egypt than in most other places at that time

DEFINITION 2

True

TERM 3

Rhind Papyrus

DEFINITION 3

the document from about 1650 BC from which we have

learned much aboutEgyptian mathematics in ancient times

TERM 4

The ancient Egyptians knew the exact

formula for the area of a circle

DEFINITION 4

False

TERM 5

The Babylonians knew the Pythagorean

Theorem 1000 years before the time of

Pythagoras

DEFINITION 5

True

The Babylonians nearly developed a

positional number system based on the

number 60

True

TERM 7

Atrahasis

DEFINITION 7

The epic from ancient Babylon tells of a great flood similar to

the biblical story of Noah

TERM 8

William Blake

DEFINITION 8

British poet- painter who wrote "The Tyger" and is often

quoted by mathematicians andphysicists.

TERM 9

Thales

DEFINITION 9

Calculated the height of the great pyramid in about 500 BC

and gave the first mathematical proof

TERM 10

Pythagoras of Samos

DEFINITION 10

Said "everything is number" best example was musical string

instruments also invented the music of spheres

Retrograde Motion

When a planet reverses its general direction of motion

TERM 17

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and

Saturn

DEFINITION 17

The planets that are visible to the naked eye

TERM 18

Claudius Ptolemy

DEFINITION 18

Wrote the Almagest and published a map of the known world

in 150 AD

TERM 19

The Almagest

DEFINITION 19

The Almagest is a 2nd-century mathematical and

astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars

and planetary paths. Reasons were given for assuming that

the earth does not move

TERM 20

The Elements

DEFINITION 20

Greek work second to the bible in its importance to weestern

thought and education

Mersenne Primes

Numbers of the form 2^p - 1 where p is primeThe largest

prime number found are mersenne prime

TERM 22

Hippocrates

DEFINITION 22

Squared the lune

TERM 23

Quadratrix of Hippias

DEFINITION 23

curve designed to solve the problem of trisecting an angle

TERM 24

Eratodthenes

DEFINITION 24

The chief librarian at theAlexandrian Museum whocorrectly

estimated the size of the earth

TERM 25

Archimedes

DEFINITION 25

The greatest creative mathematical genius of the ancient

world and discovered the formula for the area bound by a

parabola and a chord