Looking for quotes on sequences, and fractals

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Discussion Overview

The discussion centers around the search for quotes related to sequences, fractals, and chaos, with participants expressing their thoughts on the availability and significance of such quotes in mathematics.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant requests quotes about sequences, fractals, and chaos, indicating a desire for specific insights.
  • Another participant questions the existence of such quotes, suggesting they may be rare.
  • A later reply expresses frustration over the lack of specific quotes and mentions the difficulty in finding unique quotations, resorting to general mathematical quotes instead.
  • Some participants propose that quotes about prime numbers might relate to sequences, while expressing skepticism about the existence of quotes specifically addressing fractals.
  • Several quotes attributed to Benoit Mandelbrot are shared, highlighting his thoughts on roughness, irregularities, and the nature of mathematical shapes.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants do not reach a consensus on the availability of quotes specifically about sequences and fractals, with some expressing doubt about their existence while others share quotes they find relevant.

Contextual Notes

The discussion reflects a limitation in the availability of specific quotes on the requested topics, with participants relying on general mathematical quotes and expressing varying levels of success in their searches.

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Hello,

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

Thanks :)
 
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Is there such a thing?
 
JasonRox said:
Is there such a thing?

what thing? :rolleyes:

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,
 
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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,
 
Well, for sequences you might find some about primes.

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

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