
Clouds Are Not Spheres
The life and work of a Maverick Mathematician
2010 en 55 minutes
Rating: 7.7
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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

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