I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.
BENOIT MANDELBROT
Engineering is too important to wait for science.
More Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
-
I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.
BENOIT MANDELBROT -
-
Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
BENOIT MANDELBROT -
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 -
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…
BENOIT MANDELBROT -
Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there’s always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills
BENOIT MANDELBROT -
-
Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
BENOIT MANDELBROT -
-
Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
BENOIT MANDELBROT -
-
There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
BENOIT MANDELBROT -
The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
BENOIT MANDELBROT -
-
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 -
Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
BENOIT MANDELBROT