Clouds Are Not Spheres
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Documentary
•- Runtime
- 55 mins
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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.
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.
Cast
- Benoît B. Mandelbrot
- Martin Shaw
- Ivar Giaever
- Pierre Roubinet
- Heinz-Otto Peitgen
- Carl Evertsz
- Martin Gutzwiller
- Ralph E. Gomory
- Ronald Coifman
- Bernard Sapoval
Director
- Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon
