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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 can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?
(a) Cantor dust.
(b) Fractal.
(c) Euclidean space.
(d) Helium in a Box.

2. When was James Yorke born?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1941.

3. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," Gleick writes that the only problem with studying and experimenting with a new science is what?
(a) There are no rules.
(b) All the work is yet to be done.
(c) No one will understand it.
(d) It requires a new language.

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

5. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?
(a) Prague.
(b) London.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Amsterdam.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

2. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature": "And yet relation appears, a small relation expanding like the shade of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of the hill"?

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. Where is Stephen Smale from?

5. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?

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