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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.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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

A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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Fractals Infinity Way
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
The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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Study Technique Weather
Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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Asking Important Questions Right
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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Computer Levels Mathematics
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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Firsts Littles Mathematician Pure World
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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Complex Far Away Shapes
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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Deny Everywhere Roughness
Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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Engineering Important Waiting
In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.
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Definitions Simple Years
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
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
Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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Fashion Happen Mathematics Strong
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
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - When people ask me what’s my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.$

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
My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.
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Choices Complicated People

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