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heartless
Apr8-06, 09:57 PM
Hello,

I'm looking for some quotes about sequences, fractals and chaos. Any kind of help is welcome.

Thanks :)

JasonRox
Apr8-06, 10:02 PM
Is there such a thing?

heartless
Apr8-06, 10:18 PM
Is there such a thing?

what thing? :uhh:

alright, sorry. Since I haven't found any quotes about those above, there probably aren't many so I'd like to ask you for quotations that you like and think are wonderful. (Except for Einstein's and Gauss's)

Thanks,

JasonRox
Apr8-06, 10:24 PM
http://www.quotegarden.com/math.html

http://www.math.okstate.edu/~wli/teach/fmq.html

Just search online.

I'm not willing to go through them all for you though.

heartless
Apr8-06, 10:51 PM
Hasn't anyone ever said something about sequences or fractals?

Thanks,
This first link was nice. Which one is your favorite? I searched online but every website practically lists the same quotes. None of them are about what I'd like to have, but since I can't find about anything from above, I'm forced to just take general mathematical quotes.

So far I chose,

“The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.”

S. Gudder

“Mathematics possesses not only truth, but also supreme beauty”

Bertrand Russell

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

John Louis von Neumann

Thank you,

JasonRox
Apr8-06, 11:20 PM
Well, for sequences you might find some about primes.

About fractals? I highly doubt there would be anything about fractals.

kmarinas86
Apr9-06, 06:09 AM
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/benoit_mandelbrot.html

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
Benoit Mandelbrot

I have engaged myself, without realizing it, in undertaking a theory of roughness.
Benoit Mandelbrot

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.
Benoit Mandelbrot

One of my conjectures was solved in six months, a second in five years, a third in 10. But the basic conjecture remains-the Mandelbrot Set.
Benoit Mandelbrot

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
Benoit Mandelbrot

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.
Benoit Mandelbrot