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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 a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language?
(a) Computer model.
(b) Mathematical model.
(c) Algorithm model.
(d) Fraction model.

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

3. When was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology founded?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1895.

4. Robert May, like many before him, was confused by the changes when what was increased?
(a) Laminar flow.
(b) A parameter.
(c) Gradient.
(d) Energy.

5. In what year did Edward Lorenz create a weather simulator as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1951.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his paper, Kuhn argues that rival paradigms are ______, meaning that it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm.

2. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," Gleick writes that the only problem with studying and experimenting with a new science is what?

3. 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?

4. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's father?

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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