There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
BENOIT MANDELBROTAsking the right questions is as important as answering them
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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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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Order doesn’t come by itself.
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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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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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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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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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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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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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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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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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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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I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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