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 曼德勃罗

云是由一层又一层的波纹构成的,这些波纹看起来像云。当你靠近一朵云的时候,你不会得到平滑的物体,而是在更小的尺度上不规则的物体。

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A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.

一个数学理论,只有当你把它讲得非常清楚,以致于你能向你在街上遇到的第一个人解释清楚时,它才算完整。

I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit.

我将致力于无敌,直到我被迫退出。