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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will lead to an increased, steady state in the idealized population?
(a) A multiplier parameter.
(b) A higher parameter.
(c) A lower parameter.
(d) A fraction parameter.

2. In control theory, a system is _____ if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero.
(a) Unstable.
(b) Unchanging.
(c) Changing.
(d) Stable.

3. 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) Stanislaw Ulam.
(b) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(c) Harvey J. Gold.
(d) Steven Smale.

4. What is defined as a mess of disorder on all scales and is not stable?
(a) Viscosity.
(b) Fractal.
(c) Energy.
(d) Turbulence.

5. Where was James Yorke born?
(a) Cheyenne, Wyoming.
(b) Portland, Oregon.
(c) Flagstaff, Arizona.
(d) Plainfield, New Jersey.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What occurs at higher velocities where eddies or small packets of fluid particles form leading to lateral mixing?

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 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?

5. What controversial book did Thomas S. Kuhn publish in 1962?

(see the answer key)

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