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.
BENOIT MANDELBROTIf 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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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don’t get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
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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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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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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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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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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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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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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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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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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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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 had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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