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Benoit Mandelbrot

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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Academia Found Laboratory
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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Needs Nice Pieces
In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.
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Country Numbers Problem School
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).
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Nature Past Science
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Facts Fate Understood
The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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Study Technique Weather
Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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Convenience Mathematician World
It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.
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Clouds Simple Views
Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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Engineering Important Waiting
Order doesn’t come by itself.
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Come Itself Order
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.
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Facts Observation Order Science
I don’t seek power and do not run around
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Around Power Run Running Seek
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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Complex Far Away Shapes
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.
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Pleasure Realizing Years
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…$

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…
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Definitions Scales Science
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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Chance Steps Together

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