Benoît Mandelbrot, as quoted in "A Fractal Life" by Valerie Jamieson in New Scientist (November 2004)
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My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.
— Benoît Mandelbrot on Pattern
What It Means
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About Benoît Mandelbrot
Benoît B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Poland-born French-American mathematician known as the "father of fractal geometry".
About Benoît Mandelbrot
Benoît B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Poland-born French-American mathematician known as the "father of fractal geometry".
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