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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the innovative concepts that Dawkins proposed in "The Selfish Gene"?

2. How does Wikipedia differ from the Encyclopedia Britannica?

3. What did cosmologist George Gamow immediately recognize about DNA as a code and proposed that it could be deciphered mathematically?

4. Chaotic looking numbers may have simplistic algorithms but why are many difficult to determine?

5. Why is the randomness of numbers difficult to define?

Short Essay Questions

1. What estimates did Seth Lloyd, a quantum engineer at MIT, make about the power of the universe?

2. What has research shown about entangled particles and the transference of information?

3. What are major differences between Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Brittanica?

4. What are "memes" as first proposed by Richard Dawkins in "The Selfish Gene"?

5. What comparison does the author make to the famous library at Alexandria?

6. How did Erwin Schrodinger used the concept of "entropy"?

7. What did psychologist George Miller discover about a person's ability to remember?

8. What was Claude Shannon referring to by the term "entropy" and what was its importance?

9. What did Dawkins attribute the belief in God to?

10. What was the "Library of Babel" that was described in a story by Jorge Luis Borges?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is a random number? What makes a number computable? What were Gregory Chaitin's conclusions about the complexity of numbers?

Essay Topic 2

Why did the telephone replace the telegraph as the most advanced form of communication? What advantages did the telephone have to the general public? Contrast the differences between the telephone an the telegraph.

Essay Topic 3

Provides descriptions and the functionality of the "Differential Analyzer" and the "Principia Mathematica." How did early technological advancements lead to the merging of math and logic which lead to modern computing.

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