The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set … is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as ‘chaos’.
BENOIT MANDELBROTIt was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.
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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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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
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Order doesn’t come by itself.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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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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There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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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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It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.
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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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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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Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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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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Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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