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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did some of the most prominent mathematicians in the world gather in Oxford to study Mochizuki's proof?
(a) January 2014.
(b) December 2013.
(c) October 2013.
(d) March 2014.

2. In what period of time did Schrodinger's wife make more as a secretary than he did in a year as a professor?
(a) 4 months.
(b) A month.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 3 months.

3. Where did Grothendieck's parents meet?
(a) Strasbourg.
(b) Munich.
(c) Paris.
(d) Berlin.

4. In 1925 when Heisenberg got lost in fog on an island he visited, what skeleton did he see at his feet?
(a) Rat.
(b) Seagull.
(c) Fish.
(d) Mouse.

5. When did Heisenberg publish "On a Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations"?
(a) November 1925.
(b) August 1925.
(c) October 1925.
(d) September 1925.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1925, where did Heisenberg go?

2. Where did de Broglie serve as a telegraph operator during World War I?

3. How many years did Mochizuki spend at Harvard?

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

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

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. Who was Niels Bohr?

3. Who is Mochizuki?

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

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

6. What system did Heisenberg create using only direct observation?

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

8. When did Mochizuki become well known?

9. What happened after Grothendieck resigned from the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies in 1970?

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

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