“I decided to go into fields where mathematicians would never go because the problems were badly stated,” Dr. Mandelbrot said. “I have played a strange role that none of my students dare to take.”
Benoît Mandelbrot (Varsavia, 20 novembre 1924 – Cambridge (Massachusetts), 14 ottobre 2010)
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