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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.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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I don’t seek power and do not run around
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Around Power Run Running Seek
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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Deny Everywhere Roughness
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
Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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Miracle Simple Spring
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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Complex Far Away Shapes
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
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Complexity Formulas Simple
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - When people ask me what’s my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.$

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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Field Hands People
The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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Choices Discipline Intellectual
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Facts Fate Understood
Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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Engineering May Science
I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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France Littles Training
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.$

I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.
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Nomenclature Numbers Science
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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Clouds Looks Smooth
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
One couldn’t even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn’t expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.
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Luck Persistence Reward

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