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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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn’t expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.
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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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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.
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The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.
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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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I don’t seek power and do not run around
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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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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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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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If one takes the kinds of risks which I took, which are colossal, but taking risks, I was rewarded by being able to contribute in a very substantial fashion to a variety of fields. I was able to reawaken and solve some very old problems.
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