The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.
BENOIT MANDELBROTBoth 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.
More Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
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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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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
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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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Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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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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I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.
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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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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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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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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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