The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
Benoit MandelbrotBeing a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
Benoit MandelbrotSelf-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.
Benoit MandelbrotBoth chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
Benoit Mandelbrot