View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Somewhat Indifferent Health.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Ramanujan eventually begin to develop a real relationship, according to Kanigel?
(a) His old friends.
(b) His wife.
(c) His in-laws.
(d) His patron.

2. What were Ramanujan and Hardy looking for in their work on partitions?
(a) A theorem that demonstrated how partitions operate in series.
(b) A way to bridge partitions.
(c) A point at which partitions broke down for prime numbers.
(d) A way to define the number of partitions precisely.

3. Where would Ramanujan's technique of solving math problems run into difficulty?
(a) With very large or very small numbers.
(b) With multi-variable formulas.
(c) With irrational numbers.
(d) With Pi.

4. What did the divergent series 1+2+3+4+5... add up to in Ramanujan's notebooks?
(a) 39.
(b) -1/12.
(c) Infinity.
(d) 7.

5. Based on his letter, what was Hardy trying to determine about Ramanujan?
(a) Whether he was a crank.
(b) How he had devised his theories.
(c) Who his teachers had been.
(d) Where he was from.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ramanujan interested in in this value?

2. What obstacle stood in the way of Hardy's plan?

3. What did Ramanujan practice as part of his religion?

4. How does Kanigel characterize Ramanujan's developing approach to math?

5. Who was absent from the dock when Ramanujan's ship came in?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 234 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample