$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.$

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If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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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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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
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 mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…
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Definitions Scales
Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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Engineering May
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
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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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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Realizing Years
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 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
Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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Asking Questions
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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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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Able Colossal Rewarded
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
Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.

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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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See Took
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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Facts Order
I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.$

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
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

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The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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Simple

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

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