Greek Mathematicians!

Question 1

Calculated Earth’s circumference pretty accurately with a stick and a shadow

Accepted Answer

Eratosthenes

Question 2

Who opened/started and taught at the Academy of Athens?

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Plato

Question 3

This discipline forms most of the early part of Elements, including books 1-4 and book 6.

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Plane geometry

Question 4

Who associated 3-D solids with classical elements of fire, earth, air, water (ether was later added by Aristotle)?

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Plato

Question 5

Ptolemy's book "Almagest" studied this discipline heavily and focused on this model for it. (Note: he wrote on all 4.)

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Astronomy; geocentric model

Question 6

What do you feel is the most helpful review format so far? (Note: no points for this question)

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Kahoot!, Flashcards!, Practice test!, Jeopardy!

Question 7

Who created our formal logic systems, such as "IfP→Q and P is true, then Q must be true."

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Aristotle

Question 8

Who learned at the Academy, then went on to teach Alexander the Great?

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Aristotle

Question 9

Who most likely first proved the Pythagorean Theorem, although he did not first create it?

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Pythagoras

Question 10

Made improvements to long division and conics to become the greatest mathematician of her era.

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Hypatia

Question 11

This discipline interrupts those with book 5, and it also forms the topic of book 10.

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Magnitudes and ratios

Question 12

"The great experimenter" who created the first vending machine and fire engine pump.

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Hero of Alexandria

Question 13

He had a hypothesis that water would be the foundation of all life and matter.

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Thales

Question 14

BAD KOREAN JOKE! The vegetables had a birthday party for 양파. How old was he?

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5 years

Question 15

Who created an early version of atomic theory and spread it around?

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Democritus

Question 16

Eratosthenes was also the "founder of chronology," the study of what?

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Time

Question 17

Who wrote the first known book called Elements?

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Hippocrates of Chios

Question 18

Structured proofs of his propositions using axioms combined with logical reasoning and geometry.

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Euclid of Alexandria

Question 19

Worked with infinitesimals, geometric series, and most of the known volume formulas.

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Archimedes

Question 20

This mathematician's signature technique was the "method of exhaustion," which approximated early integral calculus.

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Eudoxus

Question 21

He created the logical, algebraic, and geometric process of Proof by Contradiction, still used by professors.

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Hippocrates of Chios

Question 22

Thales created the first geometric theorem, which proved 90 degree inscribed angles met which line segment?

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Diameter

Question 23

He caused Greeks to refocus their energy on geometry just before they were possibly about to create algebra.

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Eudoxus

Question 24

Knights always speak truly, knaves always lie. You meet John and Bill; John says, "We are both knaves." What is Bill?

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A knight

Question 25

This discipline concludes Elements in books 11-13.

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Solid geometry

Question 26

This discipline is covered in books 7-9, along with ratios.

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Whole numbers

Question 27

He tried to "square the circle" to find its area formula, but failed because that's impossible.

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Hippocrates of Chios

Greek Mathematicians!

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Greek Mathematicians!

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