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

2. On what date did Eleanor give birth to Nash's son in Chapter Twenty-Three?

3. Who was the professor to whom Nash was closest at Princeton?

4. Where is MIT located?

5. With whom did Nash work on games during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where did Nash move in Chapter Sixteen? What job did he take and with whom did he work?

4. How are John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s experiences in college described in Chapter Two?

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

6. How is the political atmosphere described in Chapter Nineteen? How did it affect the faculty at MIT?

7. Why did Nash worry about the onset of the Korean War in Chapter Fourteen? What actions did he take?

8. How is Nash's relationship to Lloyd Shapley described in Chapter Eleven?

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

10. How was Nash perceived by faculty and his peers at Princeton in Chapter Five?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the childhood of John Forbes Nash, Jr. from 1928-1948. How was Nash perceived by his teachers and peers? When did he develop an interest in mathematics? What classes did Nash take at Bluefield College and how did they prepare him for enrollment at the Carnegie Institute?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Albert Einstein and his position and work at Princeton during the late 1940s. What notoriety had Einstein achieved by this point in history? Also discuss John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s first year at Princeton. How was Nash perceived by the faculty at the university? What was Nash's meeting with Einstein like?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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