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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Gleick, Albert Libchaber had a similar background to who, living as a refugee during World War II?
(a) Leo Kadanoff.
(b) Michael Barnsley.
(c) Albert Libchaber.
(d) Benoit Mandelbrot.

2. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Fractal compression.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Meteorology.

3. Albert Libchaber graduated with a bachelor degree in mathematics from what institution?
(a) The University of Paris.
(b) Johns Hopkins University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The University of Chicago.

4. What is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force?
(a) Physics.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Physiology.
(d) Fluid dynamics.

5. When was James Yorke born?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole?

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?

3. Gleick compares the Mandlebrot Set to what set in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

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

5. 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?

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