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

2. In May 1948, Project RAND became an independent non-profit organization with initial capital from where?

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

4. Where was Lloyd Shapley from?

5. Where did Nash's sister find a job during Nash's second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. How old was Nash when he arrived at Princeton? What year was it? In what areas was Princeton building its faculty at this time?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What work did Nash do during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen? With whom did he work?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

Discuss Nash's work in Seattle, New York, and the Institute for Advanced Study in 1956. With what university is the Institute for Advanced Study associated? What work did Nash do there? With whom did Nash conduct research at the Institute for Advanced Study?

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