I didn’t want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure – I wanted to do something different.
BENOIT MANDELBROTI conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…
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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.
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I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.
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I don’t seek power and do not run around
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Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
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There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.
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Order doesn’t come by itself.
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I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.
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