Clouds Are Not Spheres
1 January 2010| 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.
Genres
Documentary
Cast
Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Martin Shaw
Ivar Giaever
Pierre Roubinet
Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Carl Evertsz
Martin Gutzwiller
Ralph E. Gomory
Ronald Coifman
Bernard Sapoval
