Clouds Are Not Spheres
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.
Status
Released
Language
EN
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
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