Complexes Quote by Benoit Mandelbrot

The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier…

— Robert L. Devaney

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

— Timothy Gowers

One of my colleagues likes to say that, mathematics is the - he thinks about the only subject that he knows in academia or…

— Peter Woit

Life's challenges are no tougher than complex mathematical problems that require all simple equations with factors like X and Y to find solutions and…

— Anuj Somany

“I can read and write in nine different languages, two of which are dead ones and two fictional ones. I can solve complex mathematical…

— J.C. Mells

“mandelbrot changed the way ibm's engineers thought about the cause of noise. bursts of errors had always sent the engineers looking for a man…

— James Gleick

The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.

— John Allen Paulos

Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

— Poul Anderson

When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last…

— Heinz-Otto Peitgen

Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination,…

— Freeman Dyson

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