$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.$
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.$
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.$
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.$
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.$
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.$

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Benoit Mandelbrot

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.
BENOIT MANDELBROT

Different Mathematician Uncles Want
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
Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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Produce See Thinking Took
One couldn’t even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn’t expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.
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Luck Persistence Reward
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
In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.
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Country Numbers Problem School
Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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Miracle Simple Spring
I don’t seek power and do not run around
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Around Power Run Running Seek
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
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
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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Branches Color Thinking
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
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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Academia Found Laboratory
Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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Fashion Happen Mathematics Strong
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Complexity Formulas Simple
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