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.
BENOIT MANDELBROTOne couldn’t even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn’t expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.
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For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
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There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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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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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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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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