The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn’t expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.
BENOIT MANDELBROTEngineering is too important to wait for science.
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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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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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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 was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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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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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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If one takes the kinds of risks which I took, which are colossal, but taking risks, I was rewarded by being able to contribute in a very substantial fashion to a variety of fields. I was able to reawaken and solve some very old problems.
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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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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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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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I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not – for the job that I should spend my life in.
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.
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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 straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.
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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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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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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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Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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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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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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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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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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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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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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The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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