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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. When was the first Fields Medal awarded?

2. Nash declined the offer of a chair at the University of Chicago saying that he was becoming the emperor of what, in Chapter Thirty-Four?

3. Where did the Nash's move after Paris in Chapter Thirty-Eight?

4. In what year was Nash committed to a private psychiatric hospital near Princeton in Chapter Forty-Two?

5. Where did Alicia take a job in New York after returning to the U.S. in Chapter Thirty-Nine?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was Nash working in Chapter Forty-Three? How was his emotional state at this time?

2. How is Alicia's life described during Nash's hospitalization in Chapter Thirty-Seven? Where did she live?

3. How is the Nash's journey to Europe described in Chapter Thirty-Eight? What did they do upon arrival?

4. What new project did Nash begin working on in Chapter Thirty-Two? Why?

5. How did Alicia Larde meet John Forbes Nash, Jr.? How is she described in Chapter Twenty-Six?

6. Where did the Nash's move after Paris in Chapter Thirty-Eight? What led to Nash's investigation?

7. What were the doctors' impressions of Nash in Chapter Thirty-Six? With what was he diagnosed?

8. How are Nash's career and personal life described in Chapter Thirty-Three?

9. Where was Nash committed in Chapter Forty-Two? Where did he go upon release?

10. Where did Nash spend the summer of 1956? What confrontation did he have with his father during this time?

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 Nash's first institutionalization and his diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. How did Nash's behavior change during this time? What were his colleagues' concerns? How old was Nash when symptoms of mental illness began to surface?

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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