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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1914.

2. What paper did James Yorke publish in 1975 concerning chaos?
(a) "Period Three Implies Chaos."
(b) "Physical Review Letters."
(c) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow."
(d) "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."

3. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?
(a) Fractal.
(b) Cantor dust.
(c) Euclidean space.
(d) Helium in a Box.

4. Where was Robert May born?
(a) Sydney, Australia.
(b) Tokyo, Japan.
(c) Berlin, Germany.
(d) Cairo, Egypt.

5. What does Gleick assert was the inspiration for Archimedes in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A bathtub.
(b) A boulder.
(c) A tree.
(d) A snail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state?

2. James Yorke realized that one of the largest problems with his work was that mathematicians and physicists were often worlds apart because they did not what?

3. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's father?

4. In his paper, Kuhn argues that rival paradigms are ______, meaning that it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm.

5. What concept originated by Thomas S. Kuhn refers to the routine work of scientists experimenting within a paradigm, slowly accumulating detail in accord with established broad theory and not actually challenging or attempting to test the underlying assumptions of that theory?

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