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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1900.

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?
(a) Use the same equipment.
(b) Follow the same rules.
(c) Report to work at the same time.
(d) Speak the same language.

3. In fluid dynamics, what condition for viscous fluids states that at a solid boundary, the fluid will have zero velocity relative to the boundary?
(a) Chaos theory.
(b) Period doubling bifurcation.
(c) Momentum diffusion.
(d) No-slip condition.

4. 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) Skawinski's theorem.
(b) Stevenson's theorem.
(c) Sharkovskii's theorem.
(d) Stronghorn's theorem.

5. In mathematics, what is a system which does not satisfy the superposition principle, or whose output is not directly proportional to its input?
(a) Hyperlinear system.
(b) Linear system.
(c) Nonlinear system.
(d) Thermolinear system.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?

2. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?

3. Who is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 2, "Revolution": "Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself outside the ordinary range of what are called statistics"?

4. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect" as saying "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"

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

(see the answer key)

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