The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set … is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as ‘chaos’.
BENOIT MANDELBROTThe most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set … is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as ‘chaos’.
BENOIT MANDELBROTPictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
BENOIT MANDELBROTI 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.
BENOIT MANDELBROTThink not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
BENOIT MANDELBROTThe straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.
BENOIT MANDELBROTBottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
BENOIT MANDELBROTI don’t seek power and do not run around
BENOIT MANDELBROTA formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
BENOIT MANDELBROTThe 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.
BENOIT MANDELBROTClouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
BENOIT MANDELBROTWhen people ask me what’s my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.
BENOIT MANDELBROTThe techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
BENOIT MANDELBROTAn extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
BENOIT MANDELBROTAsking the right questions is as important as answering them
BENOIT MANDELBROTI 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.
BENOIT MANDELBROTI was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
BENOIT MANDELBROT