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.
BENOIT MANDELBROTEverything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.
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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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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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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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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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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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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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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 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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A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…
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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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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 rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.
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