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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

Benoit Mandelbrot

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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Complexe Mankind Math
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Complexity Formulas Simple
I’ve been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I’m not a mathematician only. I’m a professor of physics, of economics, a long list. Each element of this list is normal. The combination of these elements is very rare at best.
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Lists Long Yale
Order doesn’t come by itself.
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Come Itself Order
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.
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Facts Observation Order Science
Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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Convenience Mathematician World
Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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Engineering May Science
The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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Choices Discipline Intellectual
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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Lying Mountain Nature Science Tree
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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Needs Nice Pieces
I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not – for the job that I should spend my life in.
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Country Jobs Professor Realized Satisfactory Way
I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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France Littles Training
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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Lines Looks Shapes Straight
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).
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Nature Past Science
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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Chance Steps Together
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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Arrogance Claims Firsts

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