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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 was Alexander Grothendieck a colossus in mathematics?

2. What university did Heisenberg return to after a time on an island in 1925?

3. When Schrodinger joined the Austro-Hungarian army, where was he sent?

4. What was the name of Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond's sister who pampered him?

5. What time did Schrodinger rise during the Great War according to complaints from his staff?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did de Broglie end his career?

3. How did Heisenberg attack Schrodinger's wave mechanics?

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

5. What analogy is used to describe Heisenberg's discovery?

6. Who was Alexander Grothendieck?

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

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

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

10. What limitations did Heisenberg set on his research during his time in Heligoland?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in sections one through four of the book? How does the point of view change in section five? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does it help readers connect with and understand characters? How does changing the point of view in section five change how readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

There is a lemon tree on the narrator’s property in “The Night Gardener.” What does the narrator want to know about his tree? What paradox is created this scenario? How does the paradox of the lemon tree connect to the paradox of scientific discovery?

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