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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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Benoit Mandelbrot
Age: 85 †
Born: 1924
Born: November 20
Died: 2010
Died: October 14
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I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.
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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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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.
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The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.
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It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.
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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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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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If one takes the kinds of risks which I took, which are colossal, but taking risks, I was rewarded by being able to contribute in a very substantial fashion to a variety of fields. I was able to reawaken and solve some very old problems.
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The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.
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There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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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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For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
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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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The extraordinary fact is that the first idea I had which motivated me, that worked, is conjecture, a mathematical idea which may or may not be true. And that idea is still unproven. It is the foundation, what started me and what everybody failed to **** prove has so far defeated the greatest efforts by experts to be proven.
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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.
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