Clouds Are Not Spheres

The life and work of a Maverick Mathematician

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.

• Release date
• January 1, 2010
• Runtime
• 55 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon

Cast

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Benoît B. Mandelbrot Self Martin Shaw Self - Host

I

Ivar Giaever Self - Physicist & Nobel Prize-Winner in Biology

P

Pierre Roubinet Self - Philosopher 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