Order Doesn't Come By Itself.

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 Theory Of Chaos And Theory Of Fractals Are Separate, But Have Very Strong Intersections. That Is One Part Of Chaos Theory Is Geometrically Expressed By Fractal Shapes.

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

For Much Of My Life There Was No Place Where The Things I Wanted To Investigate Were Of Interest To Anyone.

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