I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
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 — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say,… — 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
There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each… — 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
