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Mandelbrot's "Kepler moments" led to major accomplishments in applied linguistics, economics, theory of turbulence, information transmission, and culminated with the discovery of the fractal geometry of nature. Fractals not only supplied a unified foundation to Mandelbrot's exploits in otherwise apparently disparate scientific fields, they fundamentally changed our view on the world we live in.

I entered the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics (MechanicoMathematical Facultet - MechMat, for short) of the Moscow State University as a freshman in 1966. At the time, as in prior and - as far as I can tell - following decades, aspirants had to take four entrance exams - written and oral mathematics, physics, and Russian language/literature.