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Quotes from Encyclopedia of World Biography — Benoît Mandelbrot

1924–2010 France

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I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit.

Encyclopedia of World Biography (1997)

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