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“... need to make any calculations. The answer is obvious.’ In later decades, the young refugee, Benoit Mandelbrot, was most famously to deploy his talent for geometric intuition in what came to be known as ‘chaos theory’. To the search for deep pattern underlying apparently utterly irregular phenomena, ...”

“... Benoit Mandelbrot, who died in 2010, was a Polish-born, French-educated mathematician who flourished and became famous in America. His special genius was his ability to disregard disciplinary boundaries and find a common pattern underlying disparate phenomena. From adolescence on he was possessed by an urgent desire to invent a mathematical object that would transform the way we look at the world ...”

“... Regis reports a conversation with a senior professor of mathematics on the question of whether Benoit Mandelbrot, the inventor of fractal geometry, should be offered an appointment: ‘I don’t think we’d want him,’ the mathematics professor says. ‘I mean, he’s big in the popular mind, but is he really that big? I know what it says in the ...”