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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.

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.

Being A Language, Mathematics May Be Used Not Only To Inform But Also, Among Other Things, To Seduce.

Self-similarity Is A Dull Subject Because You Are Used To Very Familiar Shapes. But That Is Not The Case. Now Many Shapes Which Are Self-similar Again, The Same Seen From Close By And Far Away, And Which Are Far From Being Straight Or Plane Or Solid.

I Had Very, Very Little Training In Taking An Exam To Determine A Scientist's Life In France.