A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
BENOIT MANDELBROTIn fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.
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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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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 had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.
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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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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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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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My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.
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In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.
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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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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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