If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
BENOIT MANDELBROTThe most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set … is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as ‘chaos’.
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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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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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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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Although 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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It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.
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Order doesn’t come by itself.
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I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not – for the job that I should spend my life in.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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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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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
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In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.
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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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