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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. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. take mathematics classes while in high school?

2. When was Joseph McCarthy born?

3. Who was the professor to whom Nash was closest at Princeton?

4. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s maternal grandfather held what profession?

5. Where was Lloyd Shapley from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is related regarding game theory in Chapter Eight? What important book changed the way that game theory was perceived?

6. What was John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s reputation in his second year of college, as described in Chapter Two? Where did he decide to go to graduate school?

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

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

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

10. How was Nash perceived by faculty and his peers at Princeton in Chapter Five?

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 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 3

Define and discuss game theory and the game Kriegspiel. When and where was Kriegspiel developed? What was the role of games within the mathematics department at Princeton? What was significant about the game developed by John Forbes Nash, Jr.?

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