Bottomless Wonders Spring From Simple Rules, Which

I Claim That Many Patterns Of Nature Are So Irregular And Fragmented, That, Compared With Euclid - A Term Used In This Work To Denote All Of Standard Geometry - Nature Exhibits Not Simply A Higher Degree But An Altogether Different Level Of Complexity ... The Existence Of These Patterns Challenges Us To Study These Forms That Euclid Leaves Aside As Being "formless," To Investigate The Morphology Of The "amorphous."

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

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.

Beautiful, Damn Hard, Increasingly Useful. That's Fractals.

I Didn't Feel Comfortable At First With Pure Mathematics, Or As A Professor Of Pure Mathematics. I Wanted To Do A Little Bit Of Everything And Explore The World.