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A Formula Can Be Very Simple, And Create A Universe Of Bottomless Complexity.

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 Mandelbrot Set Is The Most Complex Mathematical Object Known To Mankind.

The Straight Line Has A Property Of Self-similarity. Each Piece Of The Straight Line Is The Same As The Whole Line When Used To A Big Or Small Extent.

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