My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
BENOIT MANDELBROTFor much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
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For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
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Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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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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A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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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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Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.
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Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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Some mathematicians didn’t even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.
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I didn’t want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure – I wanted to do something different.
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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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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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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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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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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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