Unfortunately, The World Has Not Been Designed

Regular Geometry, The Geometry Of Euclid, Is Concerned With Shapes Which Are Smooth, Except Perhaps For Corners And Lines, Special Lines Which Are Singularities, But Some Shapes In Nature Are So Complicated That They Are Equally Complicated At The Big Scale And Come Closer And Closer And They Don't Become Any Less Complicated.

There Is A Saying That Every Nice Piece Of Work Needs The Right Person In The Right Place At The Right Time.

Beautiful, Damn Hard, Increasingly Useful. That's Fractals.

I've Been A Professor Of Mathematics At Harvard And At Yale. At Yale For A Long Time. But I'm Not A Mathematician Only. I'm A Professor Of Physics, Of Economics, A Long List. Each Element Of This List Is Normal. The Combination Of These Elements Is Very Rare At Best.

One Couldn't Even Measure Roughness. So, By Luck, And By Reward For Persistence, I Did Found The Theory Of Roughness, Which Certainly I Didn't Expect And Expecting To Found One Would Have Been Pure Madness.