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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics at what age?

2. Between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-nine, Nash had relationships with how many men?

3. Chapter Eleven describes Nash's friendship with Lloyd Shapley which began in what year?

4. RAND Corporation first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces by what American aerospace manufacturer?

5. When was Lloyd Shapley born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What became of the meeting between John Forbes Nash, Jr. and John von Neumann in Chapter Ten?

2. How is Nash's relationship with Jack Bricker described in Chapter Twenty-Four?

3. How does the author describe John von Neumann in Chapter Seven?

4. What is related regarding game theory in Chapter Eight? What important book changed the way that game theory was perceived?

5. What led to Nash's work with manifolds in Chapter Fifteen? What did his theorem state?

6. How is Nash's thesis for Princeton described in Chapter Ten? What significance did it have?

7. Why did Nash refuse a permanent position at RAND in Chapter Fourteen? Where did he go instead?

8. When did Nash begin working for RAND? How did his work there influence his thinking?

9. Where did Nash meet Eleanor? How is their relationship described in Chapter Twenty-Three?

10. What paper does the author describe that Nash wrote in Chapter Nine? What did the paper examine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss Nash's first institutionalization and his diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. How did Nash's behavior change during this time? What were his colleagues' concerns? How old was Nash when symptoms of mental illness began to surface?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Princeton University and Solomon Lefshetz in 1948. How does the author describe the transitions within the mathematics department in 1948? Who were the faculty? How did Solomon Lefshetz go about recruiting Nash? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Nash's relationship with Paul Cohen in 1958. What was Nash's career like during this year? What relationships did he form with the University of Chicago and Harvard University? Where was Nash working in 1958? Where did he want to work?

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