1. Who is attributed with the following quote in the beginning of Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs": "The result of a mathematical development should be continuously checked against one's own intuition about what constitutes reasonable biological behavior"?
(a) Harvey J. Gold.
(b) Steven Smale.
(c) Stanislaw Ulam.
(d) Benoit Mandelbrot.

2. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos": "What else, when chaos draws all forced inward to shape a single leaf"?
(a) Conrad Aiken.
(b) Albert Libchaber.
(c) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(d) Michael Barnsley.

3. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 6, "Universality": "The iterating of these lines brings gold; the framing of this circle on the ground brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning"?
(a) Lewis F. Richardson.
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(c) Dr. Faustus.
(d) Mitchell Feigenbaum.

4. According to the author, "to play the chaos game quickly, you need a computer with a graphics screen and a random number generator, but in principle a sheet of paper and" what will work as well?
(a) A pair of dice.
(b) A compass.
(c) A coin.
(d) A deck of cards.

5. Where did Michael Barnsley earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(b) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(c) The University of Paris.
(d) Johns Hopkins University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mathematical term refers to the Euclidean plane and three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, as well as the generalizations of these notions to higher dimensions?

2. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to study turbulence in fluids?

3. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?

4. What refers to a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole?

5. When was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?

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