2. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?
(a) Jean Racine.
(b) Harry Swinney.
(c) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(d) Gustav Mahler.

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) Euclidean space.
(c) Cantor dust.
(d) Gradient.

4. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's father?
(a) Math teacher.
(b) Clothing wholesaler.
(c) Butcher.
(d) Carpenter.

5. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," the author writes, "Professional scientists, given brief, uncertain glimpses of nature's workings, are no less vulnerable to anguish and confusion when they come face to face with" _______________?
(a) "Cantor dust".
(b) "Turbulence".
(c) "Incongruity".
(d) "Fractals".

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state?

2. Where was Gustav Mahler born?

3. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

4. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?

5. Where was James Yorke born?

(see the answer key)

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