I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
BENOIT MANDELBROTIf you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
More Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
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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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I don’t seek power and do not run around
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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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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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Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
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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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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
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A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…
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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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Order doesn’t come by itself.
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