The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set … is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as ‘chaos’.
BENOIT MANDELBROTAsking the right questions is as important as answering them
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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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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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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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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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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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Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
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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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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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If one takes the kinds of risks which I took, which are colossal, but taking risks, I was rewarded by being able to contribute in a very substantial fashion to a variety of fields. I was able to reawaken and solve some very old problems.
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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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Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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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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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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