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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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Benoit Mandelbrot
Age: 85 †
Born: 1924
Born: November 20
Died: 2010
Died: October 14
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Warszawa
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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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.
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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn't expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.
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There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
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Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
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Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.
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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.
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