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.
BENOIT MANDELBROTAlthough computer memory is no longer expensive, there’s always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills
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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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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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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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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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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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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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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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Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there’s always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills
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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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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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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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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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