Benoît Mandelbrot Quote

For many years I had been hearing the comment that fractals make beautiful pictures, but are pretty useless. I was irritated because important applications always take some time to be revealed. For fractals, it turned out that we didn't have to wait very long. In pure science, fads come and go. To influence basic big-budget industry takes longer, but hopefully also lasts longer.


A Theory of Roughness (2004)


For many years I had been hearing the comment that fractals make beautiful pictures, but are pretty useless. I was irritated because important...

For many years I had been hearing the comment that fractals make beautiful pictures, but are pretty useless. I was irritated because important...

For many years I had been hearing the comment that fractals make beautiful pictures, but are pretty useless. I was irritated because important...

For many years I had been hearing the comment that fractals make beautiful pictures, but are pretty useless. I was irritated because important...