A Smooth World or a Rough One? Plato sought to explain nature with five regular solid forms. Newton and Kepler bent Plato 's circle into an ellipse. Modern science analysed Plato 's shapes into particles and waves, and generalised the curves of Newton and Kepler to relative probabilities - still without a single "rough edge ". Now, more than two thousand years after Plato, nearly three hundred years after Newton, Benoit Mandelbrot has established a discovery that ranks with the laws of regular motion. Professor Eugene Stanley, Center for Polymer Studies, Department of Physics, Boston University
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