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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 is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?
(a) Meteorology.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Physiology.
(d) Fractal compression.
2. 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?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Bifurcation theory.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Fluid dynamics.
3. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?
(a) Butterfly effect.
(b) Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.
(c) Nonlinear system.
(d) Chaos theory.
4. 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) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(b) Harvey J. Gold.
(c) Stanislaw Ulam.
(d) Steven Smale.
5. In Chapter 2, "Revolution," Gleick writes that the only problem with studying and experimenting with a new science is what?
(a) There are no rules.
(b) It requires a new language.
(c) No one will understand it.
(d) All the work is yet to be done.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 2, "Revolution": "Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself outside the ordinary range of what are called statistics"?
2. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?
3. What work by Edward Lorenz greatly impacted the thinking of James Yorke, as described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
4. In Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature," Houthakker explained to Mandelbrot the diagram in his office represented eight years of what?
5. What was the name of Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?
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