I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
BENOIT MANDELBROTThe Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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I don’t seek power and do not run around
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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I 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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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.
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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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I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not – for the job that I should spend my life in.
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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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There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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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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Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.
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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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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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