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

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.

The Rare Scholars Who Are Nomads-by-choice Are Essential To The Intellectual Welfare Of The Settled Disciplines.

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

The Theory Of Probability Is The Only Mathematical Tool Available To Help Map The Unknown And The Uncontrollable. It Is Fortunate That This Tool, While Tricky, Is Extraordinarily Powerful And Convenient.

Think Of Color, Pitch, Loudness, Heaviness, And Hotness. Each Is The Topic Of A Branch Of Physics