Film · Documentary
Clouds Are Not Spheres (2010)
★ 7.7 · 3 votesIMDb★ 7.0 · 129 votes55 minDocumentary2010
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.
- Director
- Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Release date
- January 1, 2010
Cast
- Benoît B. MandelbrotSelf
Martin ShawSelf - Host- Ivar GiaeverSelf - Physicist & Nobel Prize-Winner in Biology
- Pierre RoubinetSelf - Philosopher
Heinz-Otto PeitgenSelf - Mathematician- Carl EvertszSelf - Physicist
- Martin GutzwillerSelf - Theoretical Physicist
- Ralph E. GomorySelf - Former Head of Research IBM
- Ronald CoifmanSelf - Mathematician
- Bernard SapovalSelf - Physicist
