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Quotes from The Fractalist — Benoît Mandelbrot

1924–2010 France

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Most of the world is of great roughness and infinite complexity. However, the infinite sea of complexity includes two islands of simplicity: one of Euclidean simplicity and a second of relative simplicity in which roughness is present but is the same at all scales.

The Fractalist (2012)

Georg Cantor claimed the essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. But mathematicians do not pick problems from thin air for the pleasure of solving them. To the contrary, a mark of greatness resides in the ability to identify the most interesting problems in the framework of what is already known.

The Fractalist (2012)

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