Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.
BENOIT MANDELBROTThere 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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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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I don’t seek power and do not run around
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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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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 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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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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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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Order doesn’t come by itself.
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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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A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…
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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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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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