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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30 - 32.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Nash's first infatuation with a man was with whom, as described in Chapter Twenty-Two?
(a) Oskar Morgenstern.
(b) Norman Steenrod.
(c) Ervin Thorson.
(d) Henry Michael Temple.
2. Nash met with von Neumann to discuss his ideas regarding what in Chapter Ten?
(a) Manifolds.
(b) The continuum hypothesis.
(c) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(d) Game theory.
3. Where is MIT located?
(a) Butte, Montana.
(b) Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(c) Boston, Massachusets.
(d) Billings, Montana.
4. Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study was founded by whom?
(a) Harlow Shapley.
(b) Abraham Flexner.
(c) Ervin Thorson.
(d) Reinhard Selten.
5. Chapter Eleven describes Nash's friendship with Lloyd Shapley which began in what year?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1943.
Short Answer Questions
1. Between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-nine, Nash had how many children?
2. Nash presented a talk on his work at the International Congress of Mathematics when in Chapter Fifteen?
3. Where was Lloyd Shapley from?
4. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what month?
5. Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study was founded in what year?
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