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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was David Ruelle born?
(a) Rome, Italy.
(b) Berlin, Germany.
(c) Warsaw, Poland.
(d) Ghent, Belgium.

2. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?
(a) Nonlinear system.
(b) Butterfly effect.
(c) Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.
(d) Chaos theory.

3. What was the Santa Cruz Chaos Cabal's main focus?
(a) Information theory.
(b) Software visualization.
(c) Fractal compression.
(d) Schizophrenia.

4. When was J. Doyne Farmer born?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1959.

5. One of the implications of what theorem is that if a continuous discrete dynamical system on the real line has a periodic point of period 3, then it must have periodic points of every other period?
(a) Sharkovskii's theorem.
(b) Stevenson's theorem.
(c) Skawinski's theorem.
(d) Stronghorn's theorem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first major paper published in the prestigious American Journal based on the work of the Santa Cruz Chaos Cabal?

2. Where was Robert May born?

3. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?

4. 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."

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

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