MATH 274 Midterm: MATH274 BOYLE-M FALL2007 0101 MID SOL 3
15 Feb 2019
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Math 274 fall 2007 exam 4 answers: answer: oresme. Answer: see notes we did both in class: answer: baghdad, algebra was called the cossic art in europe in the 1500"s. Answer: the italian algebraists referred to the unknown for which they were solving in an algebraic equation as the cosa , meaning thing . Coss was the german form of the italian cosa . Hence, the art of the thing : answer: (b) the whetstone of witte. The cossic art was something on which one could sharpen one"s wits: answer: distance traveled = (1/2)x(terminal velocity)x(time), answer: algebra. Al-khwarizmi: answer: ferro (f), tartaglia (st), cardano (inq), ferrari (p). They were all involved in the solving of the cubic (and ferrari solved the quartic), in. Italy, in the 1500"s (16th century): (problem from ars magna) prove that the equation x3+cx = d has one positive solution and no negative ones. (here c and d represent positive numbers. )
