Which ancient group believed that numbers were both living entities and universal principles?
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The Egyptians
The Romans
The Pythagoreans
The Babylonians
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Who famously stated, 'God created the natural numbers, all else is the work of man'?
Leopold Kronecker
Henri Poincaré
David Hilbert
Eugene Wigner
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What did Henri Poincaré believe about non-Euclidean geometry?
It was a universal truth
It was a discovery of the 20th century
It was a result of specific game rules
It was irrelevant to mathematics
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Which mathematician's work in number theory unexpectedly contributed to cryptography?
Fibonacci
David Hilbert
Bernhard Riemann
Gottfried Hardy
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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What natural phenomenon did Fibonacci's sequence help to describe?
The movement of tectonic plates
The orbit of planets
The growth of rabbit populations
The flow of rivers
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Which theory, developed in the 18th century, was later used to explain DNA replication?
String theory
Game theory
Chaos theory
Knot theory
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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What philosophical question is posed about the existence of numbers in a forest?
Can numbers exist without being counted?
Are numbers a human invention?
Is mathematics a universal language?
Do numbers have a physical form?
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