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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. Who co-authored The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior with John von Neumann?

2. During his first semester at Princeton, Nash would arrange his morning walk so he could see whom taking his morning walk?

3. Where is MIT located?

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

5. What year was it when Nash chose who he wanted to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Nash worry about the onset of the Korean War in Chapter Fourteen? What actions did he take?

3. Why did Nash refuse a permanent position at RAND in Chapter Fourteen? Where did he go instead?

4. How does the author describe the romantic life of John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Twenty-One?

5. How is Nash's thesis for Princeton described in Chapter Ten? What significance did it have?

6. How does the author describe the mathematics department at Princeton in Chapter Four? How was grading determined?

7. Where did Nash move in Chapter Sixteen? What job did he take and with whom did he work?

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

9. How does the author describe John von Neumann in Chapter Seven?

10. How are John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s experiences in college described in Chapter Two?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss Riemann's Hypothesis and nonlinear theory. What was Nash warned regarding Reimann's Hypothesis? What paper did Nash present at the World Congress of Mathematics? What was hypothesized in the paper? How was it received?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the RAND Corporation and the Cold War. Who was America's rival in the Cold War? What defense measures were taken at this time? What military work was done by the RAND Corporation? What work does RAND do today? How has the company evolved?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the Second Red Scare, Senator Joseph McCarthy, HUAC, and the Nash-Moser Theorem. How did McCarthyism affect the faculty at MIT? What were Nash's impressions of McCarthyism? How is the Nash-Moser Theorem defined?

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