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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.
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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For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
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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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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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