There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
BENOIT MANDELBROTI 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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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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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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When people ask me what’s my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.
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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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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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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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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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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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