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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. What weapon did Schrodinger take with him when he joined the Austro-Hungarian army that he paid for himself?

2. Where did Grothendieck's parents meet?

3. After Heisenberg's fever broke in 1925, how many of his matrices had he finished?

4. When Schrodinger served as a lookout during World War I, how much larger was the company he thought he saw advancing than his force?

5. How many years did Mochizuki spend at Harvard?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Mochizuki?

3. When did Mochizuki become well known?

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

5. How did de Broglie become interested in science?

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

7. What was known about Grothendieck's father?

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

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

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

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

Schwarzschild volunteered to serve in World War I. What was Schwarzchild’s view of World War I, and how did his view change?

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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