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name: paper-mandelbrot-b-b-2012-the-fractalist-memoir-of-a-scientific
description: Apply the Mandelbrot, The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
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# Mandelbrot, The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/paper-mandelbrot-b-b-2012-the-fractalist-memoir-of-a-scientific). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/paper-mandelbrot-b-b-2012-the-fractalist-memoir-of-a-scientific.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/paper-mandelbrot-b-b-2012-the-fractalist-memoir-of-a-scientific/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

What Mandelbrot Saw and Its Core Results Benoit Mandelbrot described his work as the first theory of roughness. He observed that most natural forms deviate from smooth Euclidean shapes. Clouds, mountains, coastlines, trees, and river networ

## Representations

- Human: /a/paper-mandelbrot-b-b-2012-the-fractalist-memoir-of-a-scientific
- JSON: /api/articles/paper-mandelbrot-b-b-2012-the-fractalist-memoir-of-a-scientific
- Relationships: /api/articles/paper-mandelbrot-b-b-2012-the-fractalist-memoir-of-a-scientific/topology
- History: /api/articles/paper-mandelbrot-b-b-2012-the-fractalist-memoir-of-a-scientific/revisions
