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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

Benoit Mandelbrot

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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Deny Everywhere Roughness
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
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
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.$

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
I 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.
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Country Jobs Professor Realized Satisfactory Way
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
Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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Miracle Simple Spring
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
My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.
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Choices Complicated People
Order doesn’t come by itself.
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Come Itself Order
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.$

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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Beautiful Fractals Increasingly
A 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
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
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Complexity Formulas Simple
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
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

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