Common Quote by Margaret Wertheim

In particular, I am interested in understanding hyperbolic surfaces.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

One way to think about a pure hyperbolic surface is that it's the geometric opposite of a sphere. If you look at a sphere,…

— Margaret Wertheim

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within…

— Ron Eglash

Sometimes, properties of a fixed hyperbolic surface can be better understood by studying the moduli space that parameterises all hyperbolic structures on a given…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

If you look at the soap bubbles in the sink when you're doing dishes, you'll see the incredible diversity of shapes in there. There…

— Tom Noddy

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the…

— Herman Melville

There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there…

— Alister Hardy

“There are only a limited number of sporadic groups, and one of them does indeed have the geometric interpretion with the highest number of…

— Matt Parker

...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately…

— Edward Forbes