I Don't Seek Power And Do Not

If You Look At Coastlines, If You Look At That Them From Far Away, From An Airplane, Well, You Don't See Details, You See A Certain Complication. When You Come Closer, The Complication Becomes More Local, But Again Continues. And Come Closer And Closer And Closer, The Coastline Becomes Longer And Longer And Longer Because It Has More Detail Entering In.

I Don't Seek Power And Do Not Run Around

Everything Is Roughness, Except For The Circles. How Many Circles Are There In Nature? Very, Very Few. The Straight Lines. Very Shapes Are Very, Very Smooth. But Geometry Had Laid Them Aside Because They Were Too Complicated.

In Fact, I Barely Missed Being Number One In France In Both Schools. In Particular I Did Very Well In Mathematical Problems.

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.