              Republic of the Philippines
              POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
              Office of the Vice President for Branches and Campuses
              MARAGONDON BRANCH, ALFONSO CAMPUS, Cavite

SEMA 30013: HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS                               NAME:___________________________
QUIZ #1 / BSE 2M                                                 Prof. CHERRY E. ANGELES/ 1st-sem
2021-2022

   I.    IDENTIFICATION: Write/type the correct answer on the space provided in each number.
______________ 1. It was the birthplace of writing, the wheel, agriculture, the arch, the plow, irrigation and
                 many other innovations and is often called the Cradle of Civilization.
_______________2. A pictographic writing system using wedge-shaped characters inscribed on baked clay
                 tablets developed by Sumerians.
_______________3. Sumerian and Babylonian mathematics was based on a system called ___________.
_______________4. The smallest integer divisible by all integers from 1-6.
_______________5. Members of the Pythagorean who extended and developed the more mathematical and
                 scientific work that Pythagoras began.
_______________6. The over-riding dictum of Pythagoras’ school.
_______________7. The holiest number of all where a triangular number composed of the sum of one,
                 two,three and four.
_______________8. He discovered the existence of a whole new world of numbers, the irrational numbers.
_______________9. A base 10 system developed in 450BC by Greeks.
_______________10. A Greek mathematician who is considered to have been the first to lay down guidelines
                 for the abstract development of geometry.
_______________11. The oldest mathematical text from ancient Egypt discovered so far, which dates from the
                 Egyptian Middle Kingdom around 2000 - 1800 BC.
_______________12. Egyptian number system
_______________13. It is one of the primary sources of Egyptian mathematics that contains over 80 problems
                 and solutions as well as a table of decomposition of fractions of the form 2/n.
_______________14. The clay tablet with catalogue number 322 that was scribed in the Old Babylonian period
                 between 1900BC and 1600BC.
_______________15. A great philosopher who is famous for paradoxes as that of Achilles and the Tortoise
_______________16. Most famous for his prescient ideas about all matter being composed of tiny atoms, was
                 also a pioneer of mathematics and geometry in the 5th - 4th Century BC.
_______________17. He is credited with the first implementation of the “method of exhaustion” (later developed
                 by Archimedes), an early method of integration by successive approximations which he
                 used for the calculation of the volume of the pyramid and cone.
_______________18. It is a lucid and comprehensive compilation and explanation of all the known mathematics
                 of his time, including the work of Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Theudius, Theaetetus and
                 Eudoxus
_______________19. He wrote perhaps the most important and successful mathematical textbook of all time
                 which represents the culmination of the mathematical revolution which had taken place in
                 Greece up to that time.
_______________20. He also wrote works on the division of geometrical figures into into parts in given ratios,
                 on catoptrics (the mathematical theory of mirrors and reflection), and on spherical
                 astronomy.

    II.     ENUMERATION: List the answers by typing in the space provided
(6) Prehistoric discoveries:
    1. ________________________________                 4. ________________________________________
   2. ________________________________                    5. ________________________________________
   3. ________________________________                    6. ________________________________________


Match Column A with Column B by connecting the word on the left with the correct word on the right.

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               POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
               Office of the Vice President for Branches and Campuses
               MARAGONDON BRANCH, ALFONSO CAMPUS, Cavite




(5) Platonic Solids
   7. _________________________________                         10. _______________________________________
   8. _________________________________                         11. _______________________________________
   9. _________________________________
(3) Three Classical Problems
   12. ________________________________                         14. _______________________________________
   13. ________________________________
(6) Mathematicians who studied and taught at Alexandria
  15. __________________________________                        18. _______________________________________
  16. __________________________________                        19. _______________________________________
  17. __________________________________                        20._______________________________________

   III.   MATCHING TYPE: Write only the letter that corresponds the correct answer of A from B.
              A                                                 B
______1. Arithmetica                                    a. Hipparchus
______2. Elements                                       b. Pythagoras
______3. Backgammon                                     c. Heron
______4. From Samos                                     d. Apollonius
______5. Intercept Theorem                              e. Diophantus
______6. Dichotomy                                      f. Archimedes
______7. Academy                                        g. Zeno
______8. Method of Exhaustion                           h. Aristotle
______9. Father of Algebra                              i. Babylonians
______10. Algorithm for prime numbers                   j. Erathostenes
______11.triangles with integer sides & area            k. Euclid
______12. Sphaerica                                     l. Menelaus
______13. Conics                                        m. Thales
______14. Trigonometry                                  n. Plato
______15. Croton




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              Republic of the Philippines
              POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
              Office of the Vice President for Branches and Campuses
              MARAGONDON BRANCH, ALFONSO CAMPUS, Cavite

SEMA 30013: HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS                               NAME:___________________________
QUIZ #1 / BSE 2M