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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. Chapter Eleven describes Nash's friendship with Lloyd Shapley which began in what year?
2. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis for Princeton became known as what, as described in Chapter Ten?
3. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s maternal grandfather held what profession?
4. Where was Albert Tucker when Nash mailed the first draft of his thesis to him in Chapter Ten?
5. In game theory, what describes the situation when a player has available the same information to determine all of the possible games as would be available at the end of the game?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe the mathematics department at Princeton in Chapter Four? How was grading determined?
2. How is the political atmosphere described in Chapter Nineteen? How did it affect the faculty at MIT?
3. Who accompanied Nash in his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen? Where did he live?
4. To what faculty members was Nash most closely associated at Princeton, as described by the author in Chapter Five?
5. What work did Nash do during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen? With whom did he work?
6. How is Nash's relationship with Jack Bricker described in Chapter Twenty-Four?
7. Why did Nash refuse a permanent position at RAND in Chapter Fourteen? Where did he go instead?
8. What became of the meeting between John Forbes Nash, Jr. and John von Neumann in Chapter Ten?
9. How is Nash's thesis for Princeton described in Chapter Ten? What significance did it have?
10. When was Nash's first son born? How did Nash respond to his son's birth in Chapter Twenty-Three?
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 Nash's relationship with Jack Bricker and his arrest in Santa Monica. What work did Nash do with Bricker? Also discuss the theme of homosexuality in the book. Has Nash ever discussed his relationships with men? How was the book received by Nash in this regard?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Nash's second summer at RAND and the setting of Santa Monica. Who traveled to California with Nash? What research did Nash conduct at the RAND Corporation during his second summer there? What relationship did Nash have with John Milnor?
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