Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
BENOIT MANDELBROTClouds 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 most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set … is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as ‘chaos’.
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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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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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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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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 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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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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I didn’t feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
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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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Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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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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