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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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Benoit Mandelbrot
Age: 85 †
Born: 1924
Born: November 20
Died: 2010
Died: October 14
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In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.
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Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds the machines became a little bit better.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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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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Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
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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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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 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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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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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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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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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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The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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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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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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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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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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For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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