The Theory Of Probability Is The Only

There Are Very Complex Shapes Which Would Be The Same From Close By And Far Away.

I Was Asking Questions Which Nobody Else Had Asked Before, Because Nobody Else Had Actually Looked At Certain Structures. Therefore, As I Will Tell, The Advent Of The Computer, Not As A Computer But As A Drawing Machine, Was For Me A Major Event In My Life. That's Why I Was Motivated To Participate In The Birth Of Computer Graphics, Because For Me Computer Graphics Was A Way Of Extending My Hand, Extending It And Being Able To Draw Things Which My Hand By Itself, And The Hands Of Nobody Else Before, Would Not Have Been Able To Represent.

Everybody In Mathematics Had Given Up For 100 Years Or 200 Years The Idea That You Could From Pictures, From Looking At Pictures, Find New Ideas. That Was The Case Long Ago In The Middle Ages, In The Renaissance, In Later Periods, But Then Mathematicians Had Become Very Abstract.

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 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.