Quotes About Benoit Mandelbrot

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

The word "fractal" was coined in 1975 by the Polish/French/American mathematician, Benoît Mandelbrot (b. 1924), to describe shapes which are detailed at all scales.

We know that different regions in the brain process shape, colour, and motion. Benoit Mandelbrot has hypothesized that perhaps there is a specific circuit in the brain to deal with fractal complexity.