Think Not Of What You See, But

Pictures Were Completely Eliminated From Mathematics; In Particular When I Was Young This Happened In A Very Strong Fashion.

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.

If You Look At A Shape Like A Straight Line, What's Remarkable Is That If You Look At A Straight Line From Close By, From Far Away, It Is The Same; It Is A Straight Line.

The Straight Line Has A Property Of Self-similarity. Each Piece Of The Straight Line Is The Same As The Whole Line When Used To A Big Or Small Extent.

It Was Astonishing When At One Point, I Got The Idea Of How To Make Artifical Clouds With A Collaborator, We Had Pictures Made Which Were Theoretically Completely Artificial Pictures Based Upon That One Very Simple Idea. And This Picture Everybody Views As Being Clouds.