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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Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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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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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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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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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 had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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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 conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.
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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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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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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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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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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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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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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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