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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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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Benoît Mandelbrot
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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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The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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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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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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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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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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Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
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If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same it is a straight line.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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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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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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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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One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.
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