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.
BENOIT MANDELBROTThe 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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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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Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there’s always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills
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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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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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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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For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
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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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My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.
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I didn’t want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure – I wanted to do something different.
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Order doesn’t come by itself.
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I don’t seek power and do not run around
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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