Quotes by Benoit Mandelbrot

Benoit Mandelbrot

A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

Complexity

Formulas

Simple

A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Fractals

Infinity

Way

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there’s always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

Memories

News

Pieces

Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

Miracle

Simple

Spring

Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.

Ideas

Long Ago

Years

I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid – a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry – Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity … The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being “formless,” to investigate the morphology of the “amorphous.”

Challenges

Different

Science

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.

Latin

Names

Order

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.

Firsts

Littles

World

I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.

Book

Dream

Kind

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

Academia

Found

Laboratory

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Academia

Acceptable

Beautiful

Book

Branches

Challenges

Chaos

Choices

Claims

Color

Complexes

Complexity

Computer

Definitions

Different

Discipline

Distance

Dream

Effort

Far Away

Fashion

Fields

Firsts

Formulas

Found

Foundation

Fractals

France

Hammers

Hands

Ideas

Important

Infinity

Intellectual

Issues

Ivory Tower

Jobs

Kind

Laboratory

Latin

Levels

Lines

Lists

Littles

Long

Long Ago

Looks

Mankind

Math

Mathematics

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Quotes by Benoit Mandelbrot

Benoit Mandelbrot

A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there’s always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.

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.

I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

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