The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expres….

Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by with….

My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting ….

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems..

Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed..

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales....

I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always ….

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines..

Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion..

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time..

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line..

I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard….

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explor….

Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely ar….