Clouds Are Not Spheres
"The life and work of a Maverick Mathematician"
2010
3.9
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.
2010
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
- cast
- Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Martin Shaw, Ivar Giaever, Pierre Roubinet
- genres
- runtime
- 0 hr 55 mins