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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1960.

2. 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) Helium in a Box.
(c) Fractal.
(d) Euclidean space.

3. In statistics, what refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data?
(a) Diversity.
(b) Commonality.
(c) Dependence.
(d) Prediction.

4. 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"?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Enrico Fermi.
(c) Stanislaw Ulam.
(d) James Yorke.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what company had Benoit Mandelbrot been working in economics, studying distribution of various incomes in the economy when he was invited by Houthakker to speak at Harvard?

2. When was Steven Smale born?

3. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?

4. From what institution did Thomas S. Kuhn earn his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics?

5. What occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between the layers?

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