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Benoît Mandelbrot Quotes

1924–2010 France

Benoît B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Poland-born French-American mathematician known as the "father of fractal geometry".

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Also known as: Benoit Mandelbrot, Mandelbrot, Benoît

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The extraordinary surprise that my first pictures provoked is unlikely to be continued. Many people saw them fifteen years ago, ten years ago. Now children see it on their computers when the computers do nothing else. The surprise is not there.

Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads by choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the subtle disciplines

Benoit Mandelbrot cited in James Gleick (1987)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Benoît Mandelbrot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.