Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
BENOIT MANDELBROTI 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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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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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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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.
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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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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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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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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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A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don’t get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
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If one takes the kinds of risks which I took, which are colossal, but taking risks, I was rewarded by being able to contribute in a very substantial fashion to a variety of fields. I was able to reawaken and solve some very old problems.
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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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I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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