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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory?
(a) 22.
(b) 27.
(c) 29.
(d) 35.

2. In his paper, Kuhn argues that rival paradigms are ______, meaning that it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm.
(a) Incommensurable.
(b) Incorrigible.
(c) Incomprehensible.
(d) Indistinguishable.

3. What mathematical term refers to the Euclidean plane and three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, as well as the generalizations of these notions to higher dimensions?
(a) Boundary layer.
(b) Gradient.
(c) Cantor dust.
(d) Euclidean space.

4. What is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?
(a) Information theory.
(b) Economics.
(c) Chaos theory.
(d) Physiology.

5. What controversial book did Thomas S. Kuhn publish in 1962?
(a) Period Three Implies Chaos.
(b) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
(c) Fractals Everywhere.
(d) Physical Review Letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy?

2. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?

3. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

4. In vector calculus, what refers to a vector field that points in the direction of the greatest rate of increase of the scalar field, and whose magnitude is the greatest rate of change?

5. In mathematics, what refers to a map that exhibits some sort of chaotic behavior?

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