$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.$
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.$
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.$
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.$
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.$
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.$

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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I’ve been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I’m not a mathematician only. I’m a professor of physics, of economics, a long list. Each element of this list is normal. The combination of these elements is very rare at best.
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Lists Long Yale
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.$

The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.
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Chaos Shapes Strong
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Complexity Formulas Simple
For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
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Interest Life Thing Wanted
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
I 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.
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Different Mathematician Uncles Want
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
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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Lines Looks Shapes Straight
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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Academia Found Laboratory
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.
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Powerful Science Tool
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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Able Colossal Fashion Kind Rewarded Risk
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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Branches Color Thinking
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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Country Jobs Professor Realized Satisfactory Way
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
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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