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

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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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
I’ve been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I’m not a mathematician only. I’m a professor of physics, of economics, a long list. Each element of this list is normal. The combination of these elements is very rare at best.
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Lists Long Yale
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
Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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Asking Important Questions Right
I don’t seek power and do not run around
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Around Power Run Running Seek
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
Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.
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Circles Lines Shapes
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
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
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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Powerful Science Tool
Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there’s always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills
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Memories News Pieces Somewhere
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
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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Arrogance Claims Firsts
The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
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Complexe Mankind Math
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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Case Dull Self Shape Shapes
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Complexity Formulas Simple

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