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.
BENOIT MANDELBROTIf 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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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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There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.
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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 Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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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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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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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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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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A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.
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