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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 Ramanujan discover when his friend Mahalanobis read a puzzle from the paper?
(a) A proof to all problems like that puzzle.
(b) The value of pi.
(c) The mystical nature of numbers.
(d) The constant that resolves series to prime numbers.

2. How does Kanigel describe English society from Ramanujan's point-of-view?
(a) Malicious.
(b) Effete.
(c) Homogenous.
(d) Rarefied.

3. Who was Leonard Euler?
(a) A teacher at Cambridge.
(b) Ramanujan's tutor.
(c) A brilliant mathematician to whom Hardy compared Ramanujan.
(d) Hardy's protégé.

4. What does Kanigel say was Ramanujan's greatest talent?
(a) His calculations.
(b) His associative abilities.
(c) His intuition.
(d) His perception.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hardy and Neville nominate Ramanujan to become?

2. How does Kanigel say Ramanujan passed his time on the ship?

3. What did Hardy and his friends arrange for Ramanujan?

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

5. What was the doctor's diagnosis of Ramanujan's illness?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the conflict between Ramanujan's family and his wife?

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

3. What was Ramanujan's response when Hardy asked him for proofs?

4. In what way was Ramanujan's experience of England similar to Ghandi's?

5. What cultural practices did Ramanujan hold on to from India?

6. What accolades did Ramanujan receive for his work?

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

8. What is a formalist in mathematical thinking?

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

10. Describe Ramanujan's trip to England.

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