An exquisitely complex shape now known as the Mandlebrot set has been called the most complex object in mathematics.
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.
The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.
There's nothing really connecting the behavior of the Nile, metallurgy, and the behavior of prices except that I had the mathematical tools to explain them.
Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.