January 1, 2010
55 minutes
Documentary
Clouds Are Not Spheres
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.
Trailer
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)
Ronald Coifman
(Self - Mathematician)
Bernard Sapoval
(Self - Physicist)
