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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 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.

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) Fluid dynamics.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Bifurcation theory.

3. Where was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) Johannesburg, South Africa.
(c) Nimbin, Australia.
(d) Nümbrecht, Germany.

4. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?
(a) Revolutions.
(b) Cantor dust.
(c) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(d) Fractal basin boundaries.

5. When did Albert Libchaber join the faculty at The Rockefeller University?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1985.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a concept in mathematics where a fixed rule describes the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space?

2. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?

3. When was Steven Smale born?

4. According to Gleick, Albert Libchaber had a similar background to who, living as a refugee during World War II?

5. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?

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