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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Somewhat Indifferent Health.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the effect of Ramanujan's childhood smallpox?
(a) Partial deafness.
(b) A limp.
(c) Spinal deformity.
(d) Pockmarks.

2. What did Ramanujan's Master Theorem attempt to do?
(a) Solve Fermat's Last Theorem.
(b) Formulate number theory.
(c) Integrate finite integrals.
(d) Reduce infinite series to prime numbers.

3. How does Kanigel say Ramanujan would solve math problems?
(a) He would intuit the solution.
(b) By adding numbers to formulas.
(c) By solving one part at a time.
(d) By turning values into variables.

4. What does Kanigel say Ramanujan did at age 17?
(a) Got married.
(b) Ran away from home.
(c) Graduated college.
(d) Graduated high school.

5. How does Kanigel describe John Littlewood?
(a) A math prodigy.
(b) A consultant.
(c) A bureaucrat.
(d) A therapist.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kanigel characterize Ramanujan's theorems and formulas?

2. What did Ramanujan and Hardy develop for working with partitions?

3. What was the result of Ramanujan clinging to his cultural practices?

4. What does Kanigel say people appreciated about Hardy?

5. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan as a mathematical thinker?

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