Film · 2010 · Documentary
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.
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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.
8 principal cast
Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Self
Martin Shaw
Self - Host
Ivar Giaever
Self - Physicist & Nobel Prize-Winner in Biology
Pierre Roubinet
Self - Philosopher
Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Self - Mathematician
Carl Evertsz
Self - Physicist
Martin Gutzwiller
Self - Theoretical Physicist
Ralph E. Gomory
Self - Former Head of Research IBM
Clouds Are Not Spheres (2010) is available to stream on Flicksy via 6 verified sources, aggregated from publicly available embed providers. The 55m documentary directed by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon is rated 7.7/10 by 3 viewers.
Clouds Are Not Spheres was released on January 1, 2010.
Clouds Are Not Spheres was directed by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon.
Clouds Are Not Spheres has a runtime of 55 minutes.
Clouds Are Not Spheres is categorized as Documentary.
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