Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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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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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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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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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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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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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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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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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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