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Some Mathematicians Didn't Even Perceive Of The Possibility Of A Picture Being Helpful. To The Contrary, I Went Into An Orgy Of Looking At Pictures By The Hundreds; The Machines Became A Little Bit Better.

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

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.

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.

Round About The Accredited And Orderly Facts Of Every Science There Ever Floats A Sort Of Dustcloud Of Exceptional Observations, Of Occurrences Minute And Irregular And Seldom Met With, Which It Always Proves More Easy To Ignore Than To Attend To.