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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 Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1907.

2. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?
(a) Reading, England.
(b) Dublin, Ireland.
(c) Berlin, Germany.
(d) Paris, France.

3. Who is attributed with the following quote in the beginning of Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs": "The result of a mathematical development should be continuously checked against one's own intuition about what constitutes reasonable biological behavior"?
(a) Stanislaw Ulam.
(b) Steven Smale.
(c) Harvey J. Gold.
(d) Benoit Mandelbrot.

4. 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"?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Stanislaw Ulam.
(c) Harvey J. Gold.
(d) Enrico Fermi.

5. What work by Edward Lorenz greatly impacted the thinking of James Yorke, as described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
(a) "Fractals Everywhere".
(b) "Period Three Implies Chaos".
(c) "Physical Review Letters".
(d) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow".

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?

2. In Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," Gleick writes, "In the emergence of chaos as a new science in the 1970s, _____ were destined to play a special role."

3. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?

4. What does Gleick assert was the inspiration for Archimedes in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

5. When was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology founded?

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