Math 4109 Midterm Exam 2025
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Thales of Miletus - ✔✔A Greek philosopher "father of geometry". 1st to provide and
expect rational explanations for all phenomena.
Pythagoras - ✔✔"Numbers are all". Made important discoveries in the areas of
mathematics, music, astronomy, and medicine.
Pythagoreans - ✔✔Strict rules:
never urinate toward the sun
never marry a woman who wears gold jewelry
never pass an ass lying on the road
vegetarian (no beans)
10 was divine
Aristotle - ✔✔Founder of formal logic.
Euclid - ✔✔Square root of 2, the Elements (23 definitions, 10 postulates/axioms)
Archimedes - ✔✔Approximation of pi, Archimedes death ray, greatest mathematician
of antiquity
Eratosthenes - ✔✔First accurate measurement of the circumference of the Earth.
Apollonius - ✔✔Conic sections (parabola, hyperbola, and ellipse)
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Thales of Miletus - ✔✔A Greek philosopher "father of geometry". 1st to provide and
expect rational explanations for all phenomena.
Pythagoras - ✔✔"Numbers are all". Made important discoveries in the areas of
mathematics, music, astronomy, and medicine.
Pythagoreans - ✔✔Strict rules:
never urinate toward the sun
never marry a woman who wears gold jewelry
never pass an ass lying on the road
vegetarian (no beans)
10 was divine
Aristotle - ✔✔Founder of formal logic.
Euclid - ✔✔Square root of 2, the Elements (23 definitions, 10 postulates/axioms)
Archimedes - ✔✔Approximation of pi, Archimedes death ray, greatest mathematician
of antiquity
Eratosthenes - ✔✔First accurate measurement of the circumference of the Earth.
Apollonius - ✔✔Conic sections (parabola, hyperbola, and ellipse)
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY SOPHIA BENNETT, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
