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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?
(a) Johannesburg, South Africa.
(b) Nimbin, Australia.
(c) Warsaw, Poland.
(d) Nümbrecht, Germany.

2. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1944.

3. Where is the Scripps Research Institute headquartered?
(a) San Francisco, California.
(b) La Jolla, California.
(c) Tacoma, Washington.
(d) Portland, Oregon.

4. Albert Libchaber was a professor at what institution from 1983 to 1991?
(a) The University of Bonn.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(d) The University of Illinois.

5. From what institution did Heinz-Otto Peitgen earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(b) Johns Hopkins University.
(c) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(d) The University of Bonn.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Mitchell Feigenbaum meet Michael Barnsley at a conference in Corsica?

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

3. Where was Gustav Mahler born?

4. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the Taylor-Couette flow defined?

2. What is the Taylor vortex flow and when does it emerge?

3. Describe the Mandelbrot set. To what it is closely related?

4. How are the Navier-Stokes equations defined? For whom are they named?

5. Who is Michael Barnsley? How is his early career described in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

6. Describe the career of Heinz-Otto Peitgen. Where is Peitgen from?

7. What is the definition of a bifurcation diagram?

8. How does the author describe the evolution of chaos in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

9. What problems did turbulence cause for physicists and scientists, according to the author in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?

10. How had Albert Libchaber gained fame in his career, according to the author in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"?

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