Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
BENOIT MANDELBROTI 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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Order doesn’t come by itself.
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I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.
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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 don’t seek power and do not run around
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I’ve been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I’m not a mathematician only. I’m a professor of physics, of economics, a long list. Each element of this list is normal. The combination of these elements is very rare at best.
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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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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 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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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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If you look at a shape like a straight line, what’s remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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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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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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