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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did John von Neumann die?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1967.

2. Nash presented a talk on his work at the International Congress of Mathematics when in Chapter Fifteen?
(a) September, 1950.
(b) April, 1952.
(c) December, 1949.
(d) March, 1953.

3. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. take mathematics classes while in high school?
(a) MIT.
(b) Bluefield College.
(c) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(d) The University of Chicago.

4. Where was Albert Tucker when Nash mailed the first draft of his thesis to him in Chapter Ten?
(a) Maine.
(b) Alaska.
(c) California.
(d) Hawaii.

5. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant based upon the original "Kriegsspiel" developed by whom?
(a) Henry Michael Temple.
(b) Lloyd Shapley.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Georg von Rassewitz.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr. won a Westinghouse Scholarship to study where in Chapter One?

2. In Chapter Ten, Nash developed an equilibrium point that could apply to more than two people and wasn't necessarily what?

3. Who was the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton when Nash began attending in Chapter Four?

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

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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