There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
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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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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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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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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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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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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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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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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The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn’t expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.
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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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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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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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A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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