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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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Benoit Mandelbrot

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. more

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