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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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There is no single rule that governs the use of geometry. I don't think that one exists.
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My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.
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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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A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...
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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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Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
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Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
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A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension.
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The Mandelbrot set covers a small space yet carries a large number of different implications. Is it a fitting epitaph? Absolutely.
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Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
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I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities — and not for the common mortal — was a very bad idea.
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What motivates me now are ideas I developed 10, 20 or 30 years ago, and the feeling that these ideas may be lost if I don't push them a little bit further.
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I coined fractal from the Latin adjective fractus. The corresponding Latin verb frangere means "to break:" to create irregular fragments... how appropriate for our needs!
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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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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
November 20, 1924
Died:
October 14, 2010
(aged 85)
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