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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30 - 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter Eleven describes Nash's friendship with Lloyd Shapley which began in what year?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1943.

2. Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study was founded by whom?
(a) Ervin Thorson.
(b) Abraham Flexner.
(c) Harlow Shapley.
(d) Reinhard Selten.

3. In Chapter Fifteen, Nash began to study the area of what?
(a) The continuum hypothesis.
(b) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(c) Game theory.
(d) Manifolds.

4. When was Lloyd Shapley born?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1914.

5. Who was the professor to whom Nash was closest at Princeton?
(a) Oskar Morgenstern.
(b) Norman Steenrod.
(c) Lloyd Shapley.
(d) Warren Ambrose.

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 the Korean War begin?

3. The one requirement at Princeton in the mathematics department when Nash attended in Chapter Four was that the students attend what daily?

4. When did Jürgen Moser die?

5. Nash's theorem in Chapter Fifteen basically said that it is possible for every manifold to find a part that corresponds to what?

(see the answer key)

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