For Much Of My Life There Was

A Fractal Is A Mathematical Set Or Concrete Object That Is Irregular Or Fragmented At All Scales...

For Most Of My Life, One Of The Persons Most Baffled By My Own Work Was Myself.

I Had Many Books And I Had Dreams Of All Kinds. Dreams In Which Were In A Certain Sense, How To Say, Easy To Make Because The Near Future Was Always Extremely Threatening.

I Conceived, Developed And Applied In Many Areas A New Geometry Of Nature, Which Finds Order In Chaotic Shapes And Processes. It Grew Without A Name Until 1975, When I Coined A New Word To Denote It, Fractal Geometry, From The Latin Word For Irregular And Broken Up, Fractus. Today You Might Say That, Until Fractal Geometry Became Organized, My Life Had Followed A Fractal Orbit.

The Most Important Thing I Have Done Is To Combine Something Esoteric With A Practical Issue That Affects Many People.