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.
BENOIT MANDELBROTIn 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.
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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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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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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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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I don’t seek power and do not run around
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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.
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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 way of seeing infinity.
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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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Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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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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Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.
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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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