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If you look at a shape like a straight line, what’s remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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Convenience Mathematician World
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
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
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
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
I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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France Littles Training
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.$

Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
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Chaos Impossible Past
For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
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Interest Life Thing Wanted
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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Deny Everywhere Roughness
The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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Study Technique Weather
The 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.
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Lines Pieces Self
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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Complex Far Away Shapes
Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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Engineering Important Waiting
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Complexity Formulas Simple
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
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.$

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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Beautiful Fractals Increasingly

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