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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. When did Erwin Schrodinger travel to Munich to present one of the strangest and most powerful equations ever created?

2. After talking a walk and discuss Asian philosophy with Miss Herwig, how did Schrodinger hurt himself?

3. When a doctor was finally consulted about Heisenberg's condition in 1925, what did he diagnose?

4. When Schrodinger served as a lookout during World War I, how much larger was the company he thought he saw advancing than his force?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When and how did Shinichi Mochizuki publish a proof for a + b = c?

2. What did Einstein say about Heisenberg's ideas?

3. When did Mochizuki become well known?

4. Who was Grothendieck's last visitor before his death in 2014?

5. Who was one of the first people aware of the existence of Mochizuki's proof, and what was learned when he sent the proof to Ivan Fesenko?

6. What contributions did Schrodinger make in later years, and how did they compare to what he produced at the tuberculosis sanitarium?

7. How did de Broglie end his career?

8. How did a professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz describe Grothendieck?

9. How did de Broglie become interested in science?

10. What regimen did Heisenberg follow during his first days in Heligoland?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The book and section four are titled When We Cease to Understand the World. How does the title of the book and the title of section four relate to the theme of the incomprehensibility of the world?

Essay Topic 2

Schwarzchild solved equations of general relativity. How did the solution affected his mental state?

Essay Topic 3

Fritz Haber made many contributions to science. What were his contributions? Why were his contributions positive and negative?

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