Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
BENOIT MANDELBROTI didn’t want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure – I wanted to do something different.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
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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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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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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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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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There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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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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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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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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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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