Benoît Mandelbrot over de meetkunde van Moeder Natuur

I don’t feel that Euclid is the way to start learning mathematics. Learning mathematics should begin by learning the geometry of mountains, of humans. In a certain sense, the geometry of…well, of Mother Nature, and also of buildings, of great architecture.

Benoît Mandelbrot, in Paola Antonelli + Benoit Mandelbrot, Seed Magazine (24 maart 2008)

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