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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.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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Benoit Mandelbrot
Age: 85 †
Born: 1924
Born: November 20
Died: 2010
Died: October 14
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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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For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
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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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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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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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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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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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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 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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The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.
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I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.
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I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.
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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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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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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.
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Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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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 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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