A Fractal Is A Way Of Seeing

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

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.

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

Think Not Of What You See, But What It Took To Produce What You See.

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.