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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hardy try to arrange after receiving Ramanujan's letter?
(a) A meeting with Ramanujan.
(b) A teaching position for Ramanujan.
(c) Ramanujan's passage to England.
(d) A scholarship for Ramanujan in India.

2. Who developed an exact solution to the question of partitions?
(a) Later mathematicians.
(b) Hardy.
(c) Euler.
(d) Ramanujan.

3. Who is NOT included in the list of people who have benefited from Ramanujan's work, in Kanigel's account?
(a) Surgeons.
(b) Physicists.
(c) Engineers.
(d) Computer scientists.

4. What did Ramanujan petition Cambridge for?
(a) A stipend.
(b) Publication.
(c) An assistant.
(d) The right to return.

5. What was Ramanujan's intention when he returned home?
(a) To teach in India.
(b) Never to return to England.
(c) To stay in India for a few years.
(d) To bring his wife back to England.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kanigel say characterized Indian intellectuals' experience at Cambridge?

2. Based on his letter, what was Hardy trying to determine about Ramanujan?

3. How does Kanigel describe the trip to England?

4. How did Ramanujan respond to Hardy's request for proofs?

5. What did Hardy decide after conferring with John Littlewood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Ramanujan's Master Theorem intended to do?

2. Describe the decline of Ramanujan's health.

3. What did Ramanujan discover when P. C. Mahalanobis read him a puzzle one evening?

4. What accolades did Ramanujan receive for his work?

5. Describe Ramanujan and Hardy's work on partitions.

6. What was Ramanujan's condition when he returned to India?

7. What has been the impact of Ramanujan's work?

8. What is a formalist in mathematical thinking?

9. What problem kept Ramanujan from coming to England, as Hardy hoped he would?

10. How much did Ramanujan's bride share in his mathematical life?

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