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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?
(a) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(b) Fractal compression.
(c) Software metric.
(d) Software visualization.

2. Who is attributed with the following quote in the beginning of Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs": "The result of a mathematical development should be continuously checked against one's own intuition about what constitutes reasonable biological behavior"?
(a) Stanislaw Ulam.
(b) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(c) Harvey J. Gold.
(d) Steven Smale.

3. Where is Michael Barnsley from?
(a) England.
(b) Poland.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Spain.

4. Where did Michael Barnsley earn his Ph.D.?
(a) Johns Hopkins University.
(b) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(c) The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(d) The University of Paris.

5. Albert Libchaber's results in his work with helium paralleled what equation that relates the pressure, viscosity, velocity, density of a fluid?
(a) Bifurcation theory.
(b) Chaos theory.
(c) The Navier-Stokes equation.
(d) Cosmic arrhythmias.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a computer program or network of computers that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system?

2. Although James Yorke was a brilliant mathematician, he often referred to himself as what?

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

4. What exists when a reversible reaction ceases to change its ratio of reactants/products, but substances move between the chemicals at an equal rate, meaning there is no net change?

5. When was James Yorke born?

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