MEDIEVAL MATHEMATICS

During the Dark Ages, which subjects were valued by the scholastic scholars?

• Mathematics and Science

• Art and Music

• Philosophy and Literature

• History and Geography

What system was used for trade and calculation in Europe during the 4th to 12th Centuries?

• Hindu-Arabic numeral system

• Chinese numeral system

• Roman numeral system

• Greek numeral system

Who translated Al-Khwarizmi's important book on algebra into Latin in the 12th Century?

• Leonardo of Pisa

• Regiomontatus

• Robert of Chester

• Nicole Oresme

What was the most important contribution of Leonardo of Pisa to European mathematics?

• Spreading the use of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system

• Developing the concept of imaginary numbers

• Inventing the Roman numeral system

• Introducing the concept of calculus

Who was the first to use fractional exponents and work on infinite series in the 14th Century?

• Regiomontatus

• Leonardo of Pisa

• Nicholas of Cusa

• Nicole Oresme

Which German scholar separated trigonometry from astronomy and wrote the first great book on trigonometry?

• Nicole Oresme

• Leonardo of Pisa

• Nicholas of Cusa

• Regiomontatus

Whose prescient ideas on the infinite and the infinitesimal directly influenced later mathematicians like Gottfried Leibniz and Georg Cantor?

• Regiomontatus

• Nicholas of Cusa

• Leonardo of Pisa

• Nicole Oresme

Who held some distinctly non-standard intuitive ideas about the universe and the Earth's position in it, and about the elliptical orbits of the planets and relative motion?

• Regiomontatus

• Leonardo of Pisa

• Nicole Oresme

• Nicholas of Cusa

Which mathematician of the 15th Century had ideas that foreshadowed the later discoveries of Copernicus and Kepler?

• Leonardo of Pisa

• Nicholas of Cusa

• Nicole Oresme

• Regiomontatus

Who was the first to prove that the harmonic series 1⁄1 + 1⁄2 + 1⁄3 + 1⁄4 + 1⁄5… is a divergent infinite series?

• Nicholas of Cusa

• Leonardo of Pisa

• Regiomontatus

• Nicole Oresme