Clouds Are Not Spheres

2010 | 55 min | 7.7
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.

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Cast

B

Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Self

 Martin Shaw

Martin Shaw

Self - Host
I

Ivar Giaever

Self - Physicist & Nobel Prize-Winner in Biology
P

Pierre Roubinet

Self - Philosopher

 Heinz-Otto Peitgen

Heinz-Otto Peitgen

Self - Mathematician
C

Carl Evertsz

Self - Physicist
M

Martin Gutzwiller

Self - Theoretical Physicist
R

Ralph E. Gomory

Self - Former Head of Research IBM

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