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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was James Yorke born?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1949.
2. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's mother?
(a) Housekeeper.
(b) Dentist.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Writer.
3. 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) Harvey J. Gold.
(b) Stanislaw Ulam.
(c) Steven Smale.
(d) Benoit Mandelbrot.
4. Where is Stephen Smale from?
(a) Atlanta, Georgia.
(b) Aurora, Illinois.
(c) Fargo, North Dakota.
(d) Flint, Michigan.
5. What is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?
(a) Information theory.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Biology.
(d) Meteorology.
Short Answer Questions
1. What refers to a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, and founded in 1972?
2. Where was Robert May born?
3. Where was James Yorke born?
4. 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?
5. What controversial book did Thomas S. Kuhn publish in 1962?
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