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

For Most Of My Life, One Of The Persons Most Baffled By My Own Work Was Myself.

A Fractal Is A Mathematical Set Or Concrete Object That Is Irregular Or Fragmented At All Scales...

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.

Smooth Shapes Are Very Rare In The Wild But Extremely Important In The Ivory Tower And The Factory.

I Didn't Want To Become A Pure Mathematician, As A Matter Of Fact, My Uncle Was One, So I Knew What The Pure Mathematician Was And I Did Not Want To Be A Pure - I Wanted To Do Something Different.