Some mathematicians didn’t even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.
BENOIT MANDELBROTI was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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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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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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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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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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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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There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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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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I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.
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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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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.
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