A Fractal Is A Way Of Seeing

When People Ask Me What's My Field? I Say, On One Hand, A Fractalist. Perhaps The Only One, The Only Full-time One.

I Spent Half My Life, Roughly Speaking, Doing The Study Of Nature In Many Aspects And Half Of My Life Studying Completely Artificial Shapes. And The Two Are Extraordinarily Close; In One Way Both Are Fractal.

It Was A Very Big Gamble. I Lost My Job In France, I Received A Job In Which Was Extremely Uncertain, How Long Would Ibm Be Interested In Research, But The Gamble Was Taken And Very Shortly Afterwards, I Had This Extraordinary Fortune Of Stopping At Harvard To Do A Lecture And Learning About The Price Variation In Just The Right Way.

Unfortunately, The World Has Not Been Designed For The Convenience Of Mathematicians.

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.