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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 Schrodinger join the Austro-Hungarian army as an office during the Great War?

2. When did Shinichi Mochizuki publish a proof for a + b = c?

3. How did Hafez break his fast after tracing a cricle in the sand?

4. On the island Heisenberg visited in 1925, how close was the nearest city?

5. How long did Ivan Fesenko study Mochizuki's proof before he declared it was impossible to understand?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How did de Broglie end his career?

3. How did Labutut summarize Einstein's opposition to quantum mechanics?

4. How did Labutut describe how Schrodinger created wave mechanics?

5. What was Grothendieck's project at the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies?

6. What deprivations did Erwin Schrodinger suffer during the interwar period?

7. How sick did Heisenberg get while he was at Heligoland?

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

9. What does Labutut write about Heisenberg and his accomplishments?

10. What was Vienna like after the Great War?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Schrodinger was diagnosed with tuberculosis after a bout with bronchitis. Why did Schrodinger battle the disease off and on for the rest of his life?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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