GREEK MATHEMATICS & MATHEMATICIAN – Numerals and Numbers

What was the ancient Greek numeral system known as?

• Roman numerals

• Attic or Herodianic numerals

• Mayan numerals

• Babylonian numerals

Who is considered to have been the first to lay down guidelines for the abstract development of geometry?

• Thales

• Plato

• Archimedes

• Pythagoras

What is Thales' Intercept Theorem about?

• The ratios of the line segments intercepted by a pair of parallels

• The squaring of the circle

• The doubling of the cube

• The trisection of an angle

Which Greek mathematician applied himself to the Three Classical Problems during the 5th Century BCE?

• Plato

• Hippocrates of Chios

• Euclid

• Pythagoras

Who is attributed with the well-known paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise?

• Plato

• Zeno of Elea

• Pythagoras

• Euclid

What was the method of integration by successive approximations called?

• Method of division

• Dichotomy Paradox

• Pythagorean Theorem

• Method of exhaustion

Who is usually credited with the first implementation of the 'method of exhaustion'?

• Eudoxus of Cnidus

• Archimedes

• Thales

• Democritus

What was the most important single contribution of the Greeks to mathematics?

• The method of division

• The concept of infinity

• The idea of proof and the deductive method

• Inductive reasoning

Who established the famous Academy in Athens in 387 BCE?

• Euclid

• Pythagoras

• Plato

• Aristotle

What did Plato describe in mathematics that he is best known for?

• The method of exhaustion

• The five Platonic solids

• The Pythagorean Theorem

• The concept of infinity