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A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.

~Benoit Mandelbrot

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Mathematician

Born: November 20th, 1924

Died: October 14th, 2010

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