Clouds Are Not Spheres
The life and work of a Maverick Mathematician
2010 · 55m · N/A Documentary
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Clouds Are Not Spheres
Overview
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 and cast
- Benoît B. Mandelbrot as Self
- Martin Shaw as Self - Host
- Ivar Giaever as Self - Physicist & Nobel Prize-Winner in Biology
- Pierre Roubinet as Self - Philosopher
- Heinz-Otto Peitgen as Self - Mathematician
- Carl Evertsz as Self - Physicist
- Martin Gutzwiller as Self - Theoretical Physicist
- Ralph E. Gomory as Self - Former Head of Research IBM
- Ronald Coifman as Self - Mathematician
- Bernard Sapoval as Self - Physicist
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