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Clouds Are Not Spheres
The life and work of a Maverick Mathematician
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Release date
January 1, 2010
Creator / Director / Author
Nigel Lesmoir-GordonRuntime
55 min
Rating
7.7 / 10
Genres
Cast
B
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
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.
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