Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

Benoit Mandelbrot — French Mathematician born on November 20, 1924, died on October 14, 2010

Benoit B.Mandelbrot was a Polish-born, French and American mathematician. He is recognized for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, which included coining the word "fractal" as well as for developing a "theory of roughness" and "self-similarity" in nature. He later discovered the Mandelbrot set of intricate, never-ending fractal shapes, named in his honor... (wikipedia)

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.

Order doesn't come by itself.

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

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