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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 profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's father?
(a) Clothing wholesaler.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Math teacher.
(d) Butcher.

2. 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) James Yorke.
(b) Enrico Fermi.
(c) Wallace Stevens.
(d) Stanislaw Ulam.

3. When was Robert May born?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1935.

4. 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 McBee.
(b) Royal Information Systems.
(c) Royal Computing.
(d) Royal Mathematics.

5. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," the author writes, "Professional scientists, given brief, uncertain glimpses of nature's workings, are no less vulnerable to anguish and confusion when they come face to face with" _______________?
(a) "Incongruity".
(b) "Fractals".
(c) "Turbulence".
(d) "Cantor dust".

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, and founded in 1972?

2. What mathematical theorem states that every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere?

3. When was Steven Smale born?

4. Where is the main laboratory for the Thomas J. Watson Research Center?

5. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?

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