Clouds Are Not Spheres
Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon2010-01-01
The life and work of a Maverick Mathematician
7.7
55 min
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
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Benoît B. Mandelbrot | Self | Unowned |
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Martin Shaw | Self - Host | Unowned |
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Ivar Giaever | Self - Physicist & Nobel Prize-Winner in Biology | Unowned |
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Pierre Roubinet | Self - Philosopher | Unowned |
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Heinz-Otto Peitgen | Self - Mathematician | Unowned |
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Carl Evertsz | Self - Physicist | Unowned |
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Martin Gutzwiller | Self - Theoretical Physicist | Unowned |
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Ralph E. Gomory | Self - Former Head of Research IBM | Unowned |
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Ronald Coifman | Self - Mathematician | Unowned |
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Bernard Sapoval | Self - Physicist | Unowned |