One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence of combining pure mathematics, very pure mathematics with very hard things which had been long a nuisance to scientists and to engineers, that this combination was possible and I put together this new geometry of nature, the fractal geometry of nature.
Benoit MandelbrotPictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
Benoit MandelbrotThere is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable
Benoit MandelbrotThe most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.
Benoit Mandelbrot