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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Mitchell Feigenbaum meet Michael Barnsley at a conference in Corsica?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1982.

2. 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"?
(a) Lewis F. Richardson.
(b) Harry L. Swinney.
(c) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(d) Mitchell Feigenbaum.

3. What refers to systems whose behavior is intrinsically non-deterministic?
(a) Fractal.
(b) Oscillation.
(c) Stochastic.
(d) Incongruity.

4. From what institution did Albert Libchaber earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The University of Illinois.
(b) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) The University of Bonn.

5. What refers to a physical science that studies the effects on material bodies, and on radiation in regions of space, of transfer of heat and of work done on or by the bodies or radiation?
(a) Meteorology.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Neuroscience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What work by Edward Lorenz greatly impacted the thinking of James Yorke, as described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

2. Albert Libchaber made the first experimental observation of the _____ that leads to chaos and turbulence in convective Rayleigh-Benard systems.

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

4. Where is the main laboratory for the Thomas J. Watson Research Center?

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?

(see the answer key)

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