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A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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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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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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Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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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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$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…$

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…
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I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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I don’t seek power and do not run around
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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.
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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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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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.
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I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.
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There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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