The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius, Ramanujan Test | Final Test - Easy

Robert Kanigel
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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius, Ramanujan Test | Final Test - Easy

Robert Kanigel
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of the English does Kanigel say affected Ramanujan?
(a) Affected coldness.
(b) Chauvinism.
(c) Intellectual rigor.
(d) Nationalism.

2. What conflict did Ramanujan return to?
(a) His father and the authorities.
(b) His parents with his in-laws.
(c) His mother and father.
(d) His wife and his mother.

3. When did Ramanujan write to Hardy?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1913.

4. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan when he returned to India?
(a) Devout.
(b) Friendly.
(c) Spirited.
(d) Sullen.

5. When do mathematicians believe Ramanujan did his best work?
(a) Before he left for England.
(b) During his illness.
(c) On the ship back to India.
(d) At Cambridge.

6. How does Kanigel characterize Ramanujan's theorems and formulas?
(a) Immaculate.
(b) Almost incomprehensible.
(c) Universally recognizable.
(d) Odd by English standards.

7. What are partitions in math?
(a) The number of ways to arrive at a number.
(b) The divisions between theorems and proofs.
(c) The distinctions between prime numbers and other numbers.
(d) The separation between rational and irrational numbers.

8. When did Ramanujan die?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1947.

9. What did Ramanujan work out in his research on constants?
(a) A foundation for Euler's constant.
(b) A solution to pi.
(c) A new use for Euler's constant.
(d) An approximation of pi.

10. What society was Ramanujan elected to?
(a) The Apostles.
(b) The Royal Society.
(c) Phi Beta Kappa.
(d) The Academy of Sciences.

11. What did Ramanujan's Master Theorem attempt to do?
(a) Integrate finite integrals.
(b) Formulate number theory.
(c) Reduce infinite series to prime numbers.
(d) Solve Fermat's Last Theorem.

12. How long did the trip from India to England take?
(a) A month.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Two months.
(d) Six weeks.

13. What did Hardy decide after conferring with John Littlewood?
(a) That Ramanujan was a small thinker.
(b) That Ramanujan was a genius.
(c) That Ramanujan was unstable.
(d) That Ramanujan was dangerous.

14. What was proved correct in Ramanujan's work from this time?
(a) His theorems.
(b) His conclusions.
(c) His assumptions.
(d) His proofs.

15. What was the result of Ramanujan clinging to his cultural practices?
(a) He taught English students how to cook Indian dishes.
(b) He generated fear and hostility in those around him.
(c) He remained an outsider.
(d) He brought Indian culture to English intellectuals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ramanujan say he was willing to do in order to come to England?

2. What was Ramanujan interested in in this value?

3. How did Ramanujan spend all his time on returning to India?

4. What did Hardy try to arrange after receiving Ramanujan's letter?

5. How much of Ramanujan's work did Hardy believe was sound and original?

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