A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…
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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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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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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There 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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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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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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If you look at a shape like a straight line, what’s remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.
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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.
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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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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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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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One couldn’t even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn’t expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.
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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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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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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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