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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature": "And yet relation appears, a small relation expanding like the shade of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of the hill"?
(a) James Yorke.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) Enrico Fermi.
(d) Robert May.

2. Albert Libchaber was a professor at what institution from 1983 to 1991?
(a) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(b) The University of Illinois.
(c) The University of Bonn.
(d) The University of Chicago.

3. When was Harry L. Swinney born?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1912.

4. With whom did Harry Swinney perform experiments on the onset of turbulence for water in rotating cylinders?
(a) Jerry Gollub.
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(c) Gustav Mahler.
(d) Dr. Faustus.

5. In Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature," Houthakker explained to Mandelbrot the diagram in his office represented eight years of what?
(a) Wheat prices.
(b) Almond prices.
(c) Corn prices.
(d) Cotton prices.

Short Answer Questions

1. In physics and fluid mechanics, what refers to the layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a bounding surface where effects of viscosity of the fluid are considered in detail?

2. Although James Yorke was a brilliant mathematician, he often referred to himself as what?

3. Albert Libchaber graduated with a bachelor degree in mathematics from what institution?

4. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors": "Big whorls have little whorls which feed on their velocity, and little whorls have lesser whorls and so on to viscosity"?

5. Robert May, like many before him, was confused by the changes when what was increased?

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