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"Engineering is too important to wait for science."
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Benoît MandelbrotFractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that he — Benoît Mandelbrot
"Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently."
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Benoît Mandelbrot
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Benoit B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life". He referred to himself as a "fractalist" and is recognized for his contribution to the field of fractal geometry, which included coining the word
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