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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. Where did Nash travel to visit a cousin in Chapter Forty-Three?

2. When did Jürgen Moser die?

3. When was Jürgen Moser born?

4. Where was Nash living with his mother in Chapter Forty-Four?

5. Nash won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in what area?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the relationship between Nash and Peter Sarnak described in Chapter Forty-Seven? How did they meet?

2. Where did Nash go when he was released from the hospital in Chapter Thirty-Seven? What did Alicia do?

3. How old was Nash in Chapter Thirty-One? How did he feel about his career at this point?

4. How is Alicia's life described during Nash's hospitalization in Chapter Thirty-Seven? Where did she live?

5. What led John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s colleagues to suspect something was wrong with him in Chapter Thirty-Four? How did Nash describe his feelings during this time?

6. How was the work of Nash being used by the U.S. government in Chapter Forty-Nine?

7. How is the Nash's journey to Europe described in Chapter Thirty-Eight? What did they do upon arrival?

8. What interaction did Alicia have with Eleanor in Chapter Twenty-Seven? What was Alicia's response?

9. Where was Nash living in Chapter Forty-Four? What happened to Nash after the death of his mother?

10. How is Nash's mental state described in Chapter Forty-Two after his release from the hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the Second Red Scare, Senator Joseph McCarthy, HUAC, and the Nash-Moser Theorem. How did McCarthyism affect the faculty at MIT? What were Nash's impressions of McCarthyism? How is the Nash-Moser Theorem defined?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss Riemann's Hypothesis and nonlinear theory. What was Nash warned regarding Reimann's Hypothesis? What paper did Nash present at the World Congress of Mathematics? What was hypothesized in the paper? How was it received?

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