Clouds Are Not Spheres
"The life and work of a Maverick Mathematician"
7.7
2010
55m
en
Documentary
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.
Director
Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon
Status
Released
Cast
B
Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Self
Martin Shaw
Self - Host
I
Ivar Giaever
Self - Physicist & Nobel Prize-Winner in Biology
P
Pierre Roubinet
Self - Philosopher
Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Self - Mathematician
C
Carl Evertsz
Self - Physicist
M
Martin Gutzwiller
Self - Theoretical Physicist
