Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
BENOIT MANDELBROTA formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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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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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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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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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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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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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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Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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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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When people ask me what’s my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.
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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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In 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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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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