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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?
(a) Royal Computing.
(b) Royal Information Systems.
(c) Royal McBee.
(d) Royal Mathematics.

2. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?
(a) Fractal compression.
(b) Meteorology.
(c) Physiology.
(d) Thermodynamics.

3. What is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language?
(a) Computer model.
(b) Algorithm model.
(c) Mathematical model.
(d) Fraction model.

4. 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?
(a) Normal science.
(b) Psuedoscience.
(c) Science of commonality.
(d) Bland science.

5. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1924.

Short Answer Questions

1. What work by Edward Lorenz greatly impacted the thinking of James Yorke, as described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

2. In the 1950s and 1960s what two technologies were maturing together, according to the author in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

3. In Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," Gleick writes, "In the emergence of chaos as a new science in the 1970s, _____ were destined to play a special role."

4. What is the mathematical study of changes in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family, such as the integral curves of a family of vector fields, and the solutions of a family of differential equations?

5. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?

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