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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time did Schrodinger rise during the Great War according to complaints from his staff?
(a) 1 p.m.
(b) Late morning.
(c) Lunchtime.
(d) 11 p.m

2. Who read de Broglie's dissertation and gave an opinion that allowed de Broglie to get his dissertation?
(a) Einstein.
(b) Elie Cartan.
(c) Langevin.
(d) Charles-Victor Maugin.

3. How many day did Schrodinger serve as a lookout in a fortress in the mountains of Alto Adige?
(a) 8.
(b) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

4. How many years did Mochizuki spend at Harvard?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

5. Who did Bohr notify about Heisenberg's paper and say it would have enormous implications?
(a) Einstein.
(b) Schroedinger.
(c) Pascual Jordan.
(d) Matthew Fisher.

6. When Schrodinger returned to Zurich, in what period of time did he build on his equation until it comprised a copmle mechanics?
(a) 8 months.
(b) 13 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 11 months.

7. How old was Grothendieck's father when he was arrested by the Tsarist police and sentenced to death along with his comrades?
(a) 17.
(b) 14.
(c) 15.
(d) 16.

8. At what age could Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond recite the names of all the ministers of the Third Republic?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 11.
(d) 10.

9. Where did Grothendieck's parents meet?
(a) Strasbourg.
(b) Paris.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Munich.

10. When did Schrodinger join the Austro-Hungarian army as an office during the Great War?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1916.

11. When did Einstein propose the particle-wave duality?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1901.

12. When did some of the most prominent mathematicians in the world gather in Oxford to study Mochizuki's proof?
(a) March 2014.
(b) December 2013.
(c) October 2013.
(d) January 2014.

13. How did de Broglie's comrade during World War I die?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Drowned.
(d) Tuberculosis.

14. Who was the mathematician who noticed the proof Shinichi Mochizuki posted on his blog?
(a) Goro Shimura.
(b) Heisuke Hironaka.
(c) Akio Tamagawa.
(d) Mitshuhiro Shishikura.

15. How old was Werner Karl Heisenberg when he attended Schrodinger's seminar in Munich in 1926?
(a) 23.
(b) 21.
(c) 29.
(d) 31.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Mochizuki born?

2. At the fortress Schrodinger was assigned to during the Great War, how below him were trenches that soldiers were dying in?

3. How many of the Weil conjectures was Grothendieck able to solve?

4. When Heisenberg tried to wite an article about his epiphany in 1925, how long did Niels Bohr leave the paper unread on his desk?

5. What poems did Heisenberg memorize when he was on an island in 1925 and sick with fever?

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