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Benoit Mandelbrot
Benoit Mandelbrot
French Mathematician
Born: Nov 20, 1924
Died: Oct 14, 2010
Been First Me Physics Weather Will
Related authors: Ada Lovelace Alfred North Whitehead Archimedes Charles Babbage Isaac Newton Katherine Johnson Pythagoras Rene Descartes
There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time. Benoit Mandelbrot
Work Saying Time Needs Right Person Nice Every Right Place Right Time Piece Person Place Right
For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone. Benoit Mandelbrot
Life My Life Investigate Were Where Wanted Anyone Place Interest Much Things
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. Benoit Mandelbrot
You Clouds Made Cloud Scale Something Smaller Come Like Look Smooth Get Closer
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable. Benoit Mandelbrot
Me Unsuitable Academia Industrial Because Laboratory Found
Order doesn't come by itself. Benoit Mandelbrot
Come Itself Order
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics. Benoit Mandelbrot
Physics Think Topic Color Branch Pitch Each
An exquisitely complex shape now known as the Mandlebrot set has been called the most complex object in mathematics. Benoit Mandelbrot
Mathematics Complex Has-Been Object Shape Most Known Been Now Exquisitely Set
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. Benoit Mandelbrot
News Memory Somewhere Big Everybody Everybody Else Else Finite Computer Longer Piece Buffer Message Although Always Sends Expensive Size Fills
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact. Benoit Mandelbrot
Fate Has-Been Only Fact Understood Been After Fully
Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time. Benoit Mandelbrot
Time Pleasure My Time Occasions Years Realize Many Even Now Near
There's nothing really connecting the behavior of the Nile, metallurgy, and the behavior of prices except that I had the mathematical tools to explain them. Benoit Mandelbrot
Behavior Nothing Nile Tools Except Prices Had Mathematical Explain Them Really Connecting
When I first began studying prices, it wasn't a topic that mathematicians were working on. Purely by accident, I saw a set of data on price changes presented in a lecture and realized they behaved similarly to the geometric models I was already studying. Benoit Mandelbrot
First Accident Changes Saw Topic Purely Data Similarly Price Prices Studying Geometric Were Lecture Mathematicians Began Models Behaved Realized Working Presented Set
Most economists, when modeling market behavior, tend to sweep major fluctuations under the rug and assume they are anomalies. What I have found is that major rises and falls in prices are actually inevitable. Benoit Mandelbrot
Behavior Inevitable Assume Rug Market Rises Tend Prices Major Economists Most Falls Modeling Sweep Found Actually
Where do I really belong? I avoid saying everywhere - which switches all too easily to nowhere. Instead, when pressed, I call myself a fractalist. Benoit Mandelbrot
Saying Myself Too Everywhere Pressed Easily Instead Call Where Which Really Avoid Nowhere Belong
Both parents worshiped individual achievement, but because of the Depression and the war, they never achieved what they wanted and deserved. So their ambition and high expectations were transferred to me. Benoit Mandelbrot
Depression War Me Achievement Parents Ambition High High Expectations Both Individual Never Because Were Expectations Achieved Wanted Transferred Deserved

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