An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
BENOIT MANDELBROTAn extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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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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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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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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If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
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I don’t seek power and do not run around
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Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.
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Some mathematicians didn’t even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.
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In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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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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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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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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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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