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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. In 1925 on an island he visited, what view did Heisenberg have from his hotel windows?

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

3. When did some of the most prominent mathematicians in the world gather in Oxford to study Mochizuki's proof?

4. In 1925, when did Heisenberg's fever break?

5. How old was Hafez when he traced a circle in the sand and swore not to rise until he touched the mind of Allah?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did Grothendieck's professor Laurent Schwartz give him an article he published, and what did Grothendieck do with the article?

6. 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?

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

8. How did Erwin Schrodinger become an international superstar?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Grothendieck’s abandonment of mathematics is referred to as a curse. Who does Labutut postulate succumbed to Grothendieck’s curse? Why did Labutut seem to think there was a connection between genius and madness?

Essay Topic 2

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is historical fiction and metaphysical fiction?

Essay Topic 3

A frame story sets the scene for a story within a story. What is the frame story in ”The Heart of the Heart”? How does it reveal a connection between scientific study and an unstable mind?

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