An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
BENOIT MANDELBROTAlthough computer memory is no longer expensive, there’s always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills
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Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.
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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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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
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Some mathematicians didn’t even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.
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If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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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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Order doesn’t come by itself.
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My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.
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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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