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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In mathematics, what is a system which does not satisfy the superposition principle, or whose output is not directly proportional to its input?
(a) Linear system.
(b) Thermolinear system.
(c) Hyperlinear system.
(d) Nonlinear system.

3. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos": "What else, when chaos draws all forced inward to shape a single leaf"?
(a) Albert Libchaber.
(b) Conrad Aiken.
(c) Michael Barnsley.
(d) Benoit Mandelbrot.

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

5. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will lead to an increased, steady state in the idealized population?
(a) A higher parameter.
(b) A fraction parameter.
(c) A multiplier parameter.
(d) A lower parameter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect" as saying "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"

2. Where is Michael Barnsley from?

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

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

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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