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Benoit Mandelbrot, born on November 20, 1924, and died on October 14, 2010, was a renowned mathematician. He made groundbreaking contributions to fractal geometry, proposing the theory of fractals, which has been widely applied in various fields such as physics, biology, and economics.

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“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.”

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“Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.”

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“It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how long would IBM be interested in research, but the gamble was taken and very shortly afterwards, I had this extraordinary fortune of stopping at Harvard to do a lecture and learning about the price variation in just the right way.”

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“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.”

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“I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician only. I'm a professor of physics, of economics, a long list. Each element of this list is normal. The combination of these elements is very rare at best.”

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Born: November 20, 1924
Died: October 14, 2010
Known for: Mathematician
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The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and RewardRelated source material

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