Clouds Are Not Spheres

Name: Clouds Are Not Spheres
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2010-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 55 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Martin Shaw, Ivar Giaever, Pierre Roubinet, Heinz-Otto Peitgen

"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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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

Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon

Director