Engineering is too important to wait for science.
BENOIT MANDELBROTI 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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Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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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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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
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Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.
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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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It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.
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One couldn’t even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn’t expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.
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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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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 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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There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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