Clouds Are Not Spheres (2010)

Documentary

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.

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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