In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.
BENOIT MANDELBROTI didn’t want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure – I wanted to do something different.
More Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
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The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set … is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as ‘chaos’.
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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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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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Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.
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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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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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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 had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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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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Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.
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When people ask me what’s my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.
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Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
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I don’t seek power and do not run around
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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