I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.
BENOIT MANDELBROTI 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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A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…
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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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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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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 formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don’t get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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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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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 was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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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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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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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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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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