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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ramanujan's Spring.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kanigel say Hardy saw himself, first and foremost?
(a) As a mathematician.
(b) As an artist.
(c) As a prophet.
(d) As a religious leader.

2. Why was Ramanujan's scholarship changed?
(a) Because of his womanizing.
(b) Because of his progress in all his fields.
(c) Because of his rowdy behavior.
(d) Because he neglected his studies aside from math.

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

4. What language did Ramanujan speak?
(a) Tamil.
(b) Hindi.
(c) Bengali.
(d) English.

5. Who are the Apostles?
(a) Religious figures in Rome.
(b) Artists.
(c) Disciples of Hardy's.
(d) A secret society at Cambridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ramanujan publish his first journal article?

2. In his letter to Hardy, what did Ramanujan say he had discovered?

3. Where would Ramanujan's technique of solving math problems run into difficulty?

4. What was proved incorrect in Ramanujan's work from this time?

5. What did Ramanujan discover when his friend Mahalanobis read a puzzle from the paper?

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