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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.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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Benoit Mandelbrot
Age: 85 †
Born: 1924
Born: November 20
Died: 2010
Died: October 14
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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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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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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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A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
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Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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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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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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