Clouds Are Not Spheres(2010)

🎬55 min
📅2010-01-01
🎭Documentary
⭐7.7/10

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.

Production

Gordon Films UK

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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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