Toggle navigation

Chaos: Making a New Science Quiz

James Gleick
This Study Guide consists of approximately 24 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Chaos.

Chaos: Making a New Science Quiz

James Gleick
This Study Guide consists of approximately 24 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Chaos.

Take our free Chaos quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

Directions: Click on the correct answer.

Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Who is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 10, "Inner Rhythms": "The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models"? (from chapters 9-11)

2.

In mathematics, what refers to a map that exhibits some sort of chaotic behavior? (from Chapters 5-6)

3.

Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors": "Big whorls have little whorls which feed on their velocity, and little whorls have lesser whorls and so on to viscosity"? (from Chapters 5-6)

4.

What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's mother? (from Chapters 3-4)

5.

Who along with Heinz-Otto Peitgen studied phase transitions, nonmagnetization and magnetization in materials and their picture of those boundaries showed the complex beauty that began to seem to natural? (from chapters 7-8)

Copyrights
BookRags
Chaos: Making a New Science from BookRags. (c)2026 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.
About BookRags | Customer Service | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy    
Copyright 2026 by BookRags, Inc.
Follow BookRags on Facebook Follow BookRags on Twitter Follow BookRags on Pinterest