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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was James Yorke born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1937.

2. Albert Libchaber's results in his work with helium paralleled what equation that relates the pressure, viscosity, velocity, density of a fluid?
(a) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(b) Chaos theory.
(c) The Navier-Stokes equation.
(d) Bifurcation theory.

3. What is a lossy compression method for digital images based on fractals?
(a) Period doubling bifurcation.
(b) Fractal compression.
(c) Information theory.
(d) Cosmic arrhythmias.

4. 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?
(a) Follow the same rules.
(b) Speak the same language.
(c) Use the same equipment.
(d) Report to work at the same time.

5. Who does Gleick quote as saying "It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearily!" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
(a) Stanislaw Ulam.
(b) Enrico Fermi.
(c) Wallace Stevens.
(d) James Yorke.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Benoit Mandelbrot born?

2. From what institution did Heinz-Otto Peitgen earn his Ph.D.?

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"?

4. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

5. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 7, "The Experimenter": "It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that's happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature"?

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