MTE1501 Assignment 2 Due 13 June 2024

Question 1
Are the following statements true or false? Where the statement is false, make it to be true.
1.1 Euclid is the Pythagorean School and contributed to philosophy and the study of
proportion, plane, and solid geometry.

False
1 .2 Zeno of Elea proposed that a unit has magnitude and is infinitely divisible.
False
1.2 Base 100, the ancient Greek numeral system, was also known as the Attic or
Herodianic numeral system.

False
1 .4 Plato has one of his longest and clearest mathematical discussions in Phaedo.
True
1.5 In his works, Socrates dealt in some detail with mathematical questions in the early 4th
century 300 BCE.
False