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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.
Multiple Choice 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.
(a) Fraction.
(b) Parameter.
(c) Paradigm.
(d) Divisor.
2. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1922.
3. What concept originated by Thomas S. Kuhn refers to the routine work of scientists experimenting within a paradigm, slowly accumulating detail in accord with established broad theory and not actually challenging or attempting to test the underlying assumptions of that theory?
(a) Psuedoscience.
(b) Bland science.
(c) Science of commonality.
(d) Normal science.
4. 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) Bifurcation theory.
(d) Theoretical physics.
5. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?
(a) Euclidean space.
(b) Cantor dust.
(c) Fractal.
(d) Helium in a Box.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who said that calling the study of chaos a nonlinear science was akin to calling zoology "the study of nonelephant animals" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
2. James Yorke realized that one of the largest problems with his work was that mathematicians and physicists were often worlds apart because they did not what?
3. Where was Robert May born?
4. Although James Yorke was a brilliant mathematician, he often referred to himself as what?
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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