I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

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.

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

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.