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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 does Gleick assert was the inspiration for Archimedes in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A snail.
(b) A boulder.
(c) A tree.
(d) A bathtub.
2. Robert May, like many before him, was confused by the changes when what was increased?
(a) Energy.
(b) A parameter.
(c) Gradient.
(d) Laminar flow.
3. In what year did Edward Lorenz create a weather simulator as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1966.
4. Where is the main laboratory for the Thomas J. Watson Research Center?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Yorktown Heights, New York.
(c) Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
(d) Indianapolis, Indiana.
5. 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) Steven Smale.
(b) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(c) Harvey J. Gold.
(d) Stanislaw Ulam.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?
2. Where is Stephen Smale from?
3. What is the mathematical study of changes in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family, such as the integral curves of a family of vector fields, and the solutions of a family of differential equations?
4. In mathematics, what is a system which does not satisfy the superposition principle, or whose output is not directly proportional to its input?
5. What is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy?
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