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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. How does Kanigel describe education at Hardy's college?

2. What were Ramanujan's parents getting impatient with?

3. Who is Namagiri?

4. What does Kanigel say Ramanujan disliked as a child?

5. What distinguished Ramanujan's class?

Short Essay Questions

1. What work did Ramanujan eventually find?

2. What is Shiva the god of?

3. How did marriage change Ramanujan's life?

4. How did Ramanujan's interest change as he grew up?

5. What was the subject of the challenge Ramanujan set and then resolved in his first paper?

6. How was Ramanujan's first paper received?

7. How did Hardy explain the value of math to his family?

8. How did Ramanujan distinguish himself as a math student?

9. How was Ramanujan's health as a child?

10. How did Ramanujan go about looking for work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the influence of education systems on Ramanujan's life. How much is he defined by the systems from which he came? How is he defined by other influences?

Essay Topic 2

What did Ramanujan use math for? What problems did he solve with it? Were they abstract mathematical problems, or life problems? How did math solve Ramanujan's life problems? Where did it fail to?

Essay Topic 3

What were the two or three most influential influences in forming Ramanujan's character. What were the two or three most influential conflicts or absences or desires in shaping Ramanujan's character?

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