The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set … is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as ‘chaos’.
BENOIT MANDELBROTBoth chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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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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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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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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Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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Order doesn’t come by itself.
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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 didn’t feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.
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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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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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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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