Clouds Are Not Spheres
The life and work of a Maverick Mathematician
Until recently geometry was 'cold', incapable of describing the irregular shape of a cloud, the slope of a mountain or the beauty of the human body. With fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot gave us a language for our natural world. In this captivating documentary, the man himself explains this groundbreaking discovery.
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Top cast
Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Self
Martin Shaw
Self - Host
Ivar Giaever
Self - Physicist & Nobel Prize-Winner in Biology
Pierre Roubinet
Self - Philosopher
Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Self - Mathematician
Carl Evertsz
Self - Physicist
Martin Gutzwiller
Self - Theoretical Physicist
Ralph E. Gomory
Self - Former Head of Research IBM
Ronald Coifman
Self - Mathematician
Bernard Sapoval
Self - Physicist
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- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 1, 2010
- Runtime
- 55m
- Original language
- EN
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