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 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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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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Order doesn’t come by itself.
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If you look at a shape like a straight line, what’s remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.
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Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there’s always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills
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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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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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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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One 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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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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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 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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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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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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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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