The Extraordinary Fact Is That The First Idea I Had Which Motivated Me, That Worked, Is Conjecture, A Mathematical Idea Which May Or May Not Be True. And That Idea Is Still Unproven. It Is The Foundation, What Started Me And What Everybody Failed To **** Prove Has So Far Defeated The Greatest Efforts By Experts To Be Proven.

-Benoit Mandelbrot

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The Extraordinary Fact Is That The First

Benoit Mandelbrot

The Extraordinary Fact Is That The First Idea I Had Which Motivated Me, That Worked, Is Conjecture, A Mathematical Idea Which May Or May Not Be True. And That Idea Is Still Unproven. It Is The Foundation, What Started Me And What Everybody Failed To **** Prove Has So Far Defeated The Greatest Efforts By Experts To Be Proven.

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Ideas

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Foundation

Everybody In Mathematics Had Given Up For 100 Years Or 200 Years The Idea That You Could From Pictures, From Looking At Pictures, Find New Ideas. That Was The Case Long Ago In The Middle Ages, In The Renaissance, In Later Periods, But Then Mathematicians Had Become Very Abstract.

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Ideas