Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
BENOIT MANDELBROTThere is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
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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 didn’t feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.
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There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
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The 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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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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There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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If you look at a shape like a straight line, what’s remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
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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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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.
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Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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