CROSS WORD PUZZLE: Use the clues/descriptions bellow to fill in the

crossword puzzle with the correct words.

Across
1. ___ University in particular was famed for its intense mathematics
competitions.
2. Europe's first great medieval mathematician was the Italian Leonardo of
Pisa, better known by his nickname __.
3. The German scholar Regiomontatus was perhaps the most capable
mathematician of the ___ Century.

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4. A powerful procedure for finding roots of equations called ___ Method.

2. 4.

3.

1.

For items 5-8. Find the wrong underlined word in the statement.

5.During the Pre-Renaissance, development of mathematics and accounting

interwove.

A. Pre-renaissance
B. Mathematics
C. Accounting
D. Interwove

6. By the 12th Century, though, Asian, and particularly Italy, was beginning
to trade with the East.

A. 12th Century
B. Asian
C. Italy
D. East

7. Simon Stevin's book, De Thiende (The Art Of Nineths), first published in

Dutch, 1585 QD
 A. Simon Stevin's
B. De Thiende
C. The Art Of Nineths
D. 1585 AD

8. During the 16th and early 17th Century, the equations, multiplication,
division, radical(root), decimal and inequality symbols were gradually
introduced and standardized

A. 16th and 17th Century

B. Equations
C. Decimal and Inequality Symbols
D. None.

IDENTIFICATION: Identify what is being asked in the following sentences.

9. He was the Europe‘s first great medieval mathematician.

10. He was the first to describe hypocycloids, the pointed plane
curves generated by the trace of a fixed point on a small circle that rolls
within a larger circle, and the generating circles.
11. The Father of Modern Philosophy.
12. He wrote the book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

FILL IN THE BLANKS

Euler was described by contemporaries as a kind and ________ man, one

who enjoyed the simple pleasures of growing vegetables and telling stories
to his brood of 13 children. In this regard, Euler presents a welcome
contrast to the withdrawn, secretive Isaac Newton, one of his very few
_________ peers. Euler even retained his good nature when, in ____ , he
lost most of the vision in his normal eye . Almost totally blind and in some
pain, Euler nonetheless continued his mathematical writings unabated, by
dictating his wonderful equations and formulas to an associate. Just as
deafness proved no obstacle to Ludwig von Beethoven a generation later, so
blindness did not reduce the flow of mathematics from ______ Euler.

MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE: Write M, if only the first statement is correct,

Write A, if only the second statement is correct, Write T, if both
Statement are correct, and Write H, if Borth statement is Incorrect.

17. A. Isaac Newton can be considered one of the founders of modern

science, and his book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
(often referred simply as the Principia) is a major book in Western
civilization.
B. One of his first successes, and a definite step toward calculus, was his
extension of the trinomial theorem to other exponents besides positive
integers.

18. A. Descartes is considered by many to be the father of modern

mathematics, because his ideas departed widely from current understanding
in the early 17th century, which was more feeling-based.
B. Since Descartes believed that all lies were ultimately linked, he
sought
to uncover the meaning of the natural world with a rational approach,
through science and mathematics.

19. A. Fermat’s mathematical work was communicated mainly in letters to

friends, often with little or no proof of his theorems
B. Although he himself claimed to have proved all his geometric
theorems, few records of his proofs have survived.

20. A. Niccolò Fontana became known as Tartaglia (meaning ‘ the

stammerer’) for a speech defect he suffered due to an injury he received in
a battle against the invading French army.
B.He was a poor engineer known for designing fortifications, a surveyor
of topography and a bookkeeper in the Republic of Venice.