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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 was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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Academia Found Laboratory
Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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Asking Questions
I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.
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The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

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The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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Choices
A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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Fractals Infinity Way
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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Lists Long Yale
Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.

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Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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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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Helpful Littles Machines
Order doesn’t come by itself.
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Itself Order
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.$

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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Nomenclature Numbers
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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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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Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.
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Case Dull Self Shapes
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…

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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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Definitions Scales
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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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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Lines Looks Shapes
Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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Engineering Waiting
Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.

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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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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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