$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - When people ask me what’s my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.$
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - When people ask me what’s my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.$
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - When people ask me what’s my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.$
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - When people ask me what’s my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.$
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - When people ask me what’s my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.$
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - When people ask me what’s my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.$

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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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Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.
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Lying Mountain Nature Science Tree
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
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
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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Branches Color Thinking
Order doesn’t come by itself.
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Come Itself Order
Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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Convenience Mathematician World
The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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Study Technique Weather
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
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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Complex Far Away Shapes
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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Pleasure Realizing Years
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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Needs Nice Pieces
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.$

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
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Claims Hammers Use
Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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Engineering May Science
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.$

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 Science
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - When people ask me what’s my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.$

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 fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Facts Fate Understood
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
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Circles Clouds Mountain
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.$

A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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Fractals Infinity Way
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.$

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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Beautiful Fractals Increasingly
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Complexity Formulas Simple
Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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Asking Important Questions Right
A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don’t get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
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Clouds Looks Smooth
Some mathematicians didn’t even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.
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Helpful Littles Machines
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).
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Nature Past Science
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 Fashion Kind Rewarded Risk
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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Book Dream Kind
I didn’t want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure – I wanted to do something different.
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Different Mathematician Uncles Want