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Explore our hand-picked selection of 77 inspiring quotes by Benoit Mandelbrot.

About Benoit Mandelbrot

  • Born: November 20, 1924
  • Died: October 14, 2010
  • Occupation: Mathematician
    • If one takes the kinds of risks which i took, which are colossal, but taking risks, i was rewarded by being able to contribute in a very substantial fashion to a variety of fields. i was able to reawaken and solve some very old problems.
    Fashion Risk Able
    Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when i was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
    Fashion Strong Mathematics
    I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in france.
    Training Littles France
    In fact, i barely missed being number one in france in both schools. in particular i did very well in mathematical problems.
    School Numbers France
    I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so i knew what the pure mathematician was and i did not want to be a pure - i wanted to do something different.
    Uncles Different Want
    I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. i wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.
    World Littles Firsts
    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.
    Jobs Way France
    Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. it is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time i look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.
    Ideas Roots Long
    Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.
    Science Order Facts
    I don't seek power and do not run around
    Running
    When people ask me what's my field? i say, on one hand, a fractalist. perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.
    Hands People Fields
    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).
    Nature Science Past
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