I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that his ideas changed my life. I am more affected by this death than many others, but I also remember all of his achievements. There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics, but if there were, it surely would have gone to Mandelbrot.
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I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that his ideas changed my life. I am more affected by this death than many others, but I also remember all of his achievements. There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics, but if there were, it surely would have gone to Mandelbrot.
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