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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. Between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-nine, Nash had how many children?

3. When was the Rockefeller Foundation established?

4. In what year was John's sister Martha Nash born?

5. Who did the Republic of Korea fight in the Korean War?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 2

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 3

Describe the childhood of John Forbes Nash, Jr. from 1928-1948. How was Nash perceived by his teachers and peers? When did he develop an interest in mathematics? What classes did Nash take at Bluefield College and how did they prepare him for enrollment at the Carnegie Institute?

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