An Extraordinary Amount Of Arrogance

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.

Many Painters Had A Clear Idea Of What Fractals Are. Take A French Classic Painter Named Poussin. Now, He Painted Beautiful Landscapes, Completely Artificial Ones, Imaginary Landscapes. And How Did He Choose Them? Well, He Had The Balance Of Trees, Of Lawns, Of Houses In The Distance. He Had A Balance Of Small Objects, Big Objects, Big Trees In Front And His Balance Of Objects At Every Scale Is What Gives To Poussin A Special Feeling.

I Spent Half My Life, Roughly Speaking, Doing The Study Of Nature In Many Aspects And Half Of My Life Studying Completely Artificial Shapes. And The Two Are Extraordinarily Close; In One Way Both Are Fractal.

It Was A Very Big Gamble. I Lost My Job In France, I Received A Job In Which Was Extremely Uncertain, How Long Would Ibm Be Interested In Research, But The Gamble Was Taken And Very Shortly Afterwards, I Had This Extraordinary Fortune Of Stopping At Harvard To Do A Lecture And Learning About The Price Variation In Just The Right Way.

The Extraordinary Fact Is That The First Idea I Had Which Motivated Me, That Worked, Is Conjecture, A Mathematical Idea Which May Or May Not Be True. And That Idea Is Still Unproven. It Is The Foundation, What Started Me And What Everybody Failed To **** Prove Has So Far Defeated The Greatest Efforts By Experts To Be Proven.