In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
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… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence of combining… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The extraordinary fact is that the first idea I had which motivated me, that worked, is conjecture, a mathematical idea which may or may… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Most economists, when modeling market behavior, tend to sweep major fluctuations under the rug and assume they are anomalies. What I have found is… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
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,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
When I first began studying prices, it wasn't a topic that mathematicians were working on. Purely by accident, I saw a set of data… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
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