Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
BENOIT MANDELBROTThe Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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I 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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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set … is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as ‘chaos’.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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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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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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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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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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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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Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
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Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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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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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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Order doesn’t come by itself.
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