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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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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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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The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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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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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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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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The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.
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The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set … is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as ‘chaos’.
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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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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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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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