The Most Important Thing I Have Done

I Didn't Feel Comfortable At First With Pure Mathematics, Or As A Professor Of Pure Mathematics. I Wanted To Do A Little Bit Of Everything And Explore The World.

Self-similarity Is A Dull Subject Because You Are Used To Very Familiar Shapes. But That Is Not The Case. Now Many Shapes Which Are Self-similar Again, The Same Seen From Close By And Far Away, And Which Are Far From Being Straight Or Plane Or Solid.

For Much Of My Life There Was No Place Where The Things I Wanted To Investigate Were Of Interest To Anyone.

Now That I Near 80, I Realize With Wistful Pleasure That On Many Occasions I Was 10, 20, 40, Even 50 Years Ahead Of My Time.

There Are Very Complex Shapes Which Would Be The Same From Close By And Far Away.