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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's father?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Clothing wholesaler.
(c) Math teacher.
(d) Butcher.

2. One of the implications of what theorem is that if a continuous discrete dynamical system on the real line has a periodic point of period 3, then it must have periodic points of every other period?
(a) Sharkovskii's theorem.
(b) Stronghorn's theorem.
(c) Skawinski's theorem.
(d) Stevenson's theorem.

3. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A softball.
(b) A six-foot wide magnifying glass.
(c) A twenty-story high pendulum.
(d) A turkey baster.

4. In Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature," Houthakker explained to Mandelbrot the diagram in his office represented eight years of what?
(a) Cotton prices.
(b) Corn prices.
(c) Wheat prices.
(d) Almond prices.

5. When was James Yorke born?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1937.

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. In his paper, Kuhn argues that rival paradigms are ______, meaning that it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm.

3. What refers to a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, and founded in 1972?

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

5. What refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state?

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