The Ancient Greece: the cradle of music and maths

The Ancient Greek concept that music was the key to understanding "the fundamental interconnectedness of all thing in the universe" was called what?

• Music

• Pathos

• Plato

• Harmonia

The number 0 has been a controversial number. True or false?

• True

• False

According to Plato's thoughts, what does the Spheres' theory mean?

• The movement of the planets in the universe produces harmonies that only the Gods can hear.

• The Spheres offer you power and wisdom

• Was the result of Divine inspiration from a group of goddesses known as the Muses

• Each planet is related to a musical note from a pentatonic scale

Negative numbers were considered absurd...

• only in the Ancient Greece

• by the Arabian mathematicians

• until their introduction by Gerolamo Cardano

• even during the 19th century

Who were the Pythagoreans?

• Merchants and bankers who used Pythagoras' theorem?

• Mathematician-philosophers who were members of Pythagoras' school

• Ancient Greeks who studied mathematics

• People who discovered and proved the Pythagorean theorem

Which of the following is the best way to describe the Greek concept of "ethos"?

• A guiding principle of understanding how music works

• A system to identify dangerous thoughts

• The importance of music in everyday life

• How one treats oneself and others

What is a rational number?

• A perfect number

• The length of the diagonal of a square with side-length of 1

• A number that can be expressed as the ratio of two quantities

• A number that cannot be expressed as the ratio of two quantities

Plato believed that dangerous music was music that:

• Encourage self-discipline

• Wasn't from Greece

• Deviated from the accepted norm

• Could be heard from space