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.
BENOIT MANDELBROTIf 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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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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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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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 Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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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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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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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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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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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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Order doesn’t come by itself.
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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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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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