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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. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what year, in Chapter Three?

2. Nash invented a game of strategy at Princeton and what fellow student made the board for the game?

3. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what month?

4. In Chapter Twenty, Nash was challenged to solve the problem of what?

5. Where is MIT located?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Nash's relationship to Lloyd Shapley described in Chapter Eleven?

2. Where did Nash meet Eleanor? How is their relationship described in Chapter Twenty-Three?

3. When did Nash begin working for RAND? How did his work there influence his thinking?

4. What does the author write about Nash's involvement with games in Chapter Six?

5. To what faculty members was Nash most closely associated at Princeton, as described by the author in Chapter Five?

6. What led to Nash's theorem on manifolds in Chapter Twenty? What was the theory known as?

7. Who accompanied Nash in his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen? Where did he live?

8. How is the political atmosphere described in Chapter Nineteen? How did it affect the faculty at MIT?

9. How was John Forbes Nash, Jr. described as a child in Chapter One? When did he develop an interest in mathematics?

10. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. grow up? How were Nash's parents described in Chapter One?

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 and discuss the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Jürgen Moser. When was the Courant Institute established? What was the basis of Nash's work there? How did Nash feel about his career in Chapters Thirty and Thirty-One? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Princeton University and Solomon Lefshetz in 1948. How does the author describe the transitions within the mathematics department in 1948? Who were the faculty? How did Solomon Lefshetz go about recruiting Nash? Why?

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