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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 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?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Fluid dynamics.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Bifurcation theory.
2. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," Gleick writes that the only problem with studying and experimenting with a new science is what?
(a) No one will understand it.
(b) There are no rules.
(c) It requires a new language.
(d) All the work is yet to be done.
3. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?
(a) Prague.
(b) London.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Amsterdam.
4. Where is Stephen Smale from?
(a) Atlanta, Georgia.
(b) Flint, Michigan.
(c) Aurora, Illinois.
(d) Fargo, North Dakota.
5. For what company had Benoit Mandelbrot been working in economics, studying distribution of various incomes in the economy when he was invited by Houthakker to speak at Harvard?
(a) Xerox.
(b) IBM.
(c) ProtoLife.
(d) Iterated Systems Incorporated.
Short Answer Questions
1. In mathematics and statistics, a _____ is a quantity that serves to relate functions and variables using a common variable when such a relationship would be difficult to explicate with an equation.
2. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?
3. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
4. 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"?
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"?
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