Able Quote by Benoit Mandelbrot

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

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

Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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

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

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

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

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

I don't seek power and do not run around

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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

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

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