The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
BENOIT MANDELBROTEngineering is too important to wait for science.
More Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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I don’t seek power and do not run around
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If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).
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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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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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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.
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Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
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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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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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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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